Thursday, May 06, 2004
Search for Tomorrow - Computerworld: "Search engines get smarter, more powerful.
Future Watch by Gary H. Anthes
APRIL 05, 2004 - Most information junkies would be hard-pressed to name anything that has transformed their professional lives as much as Internet search engines have. The miraculous devices can take your hot topic of the day, scan millions of Web pages and in seconds bring back product announcements, research papers, the names of experts and more - things that would be difficult or impossible to find otherwise.
But as powerful as they are, search engines have huge weaknesses. For example, a recent Google search on the word Linux took just 0.4 seconds, but it had 95 million hits. Too bad if the one you need is No. 10,000 on the list..."
Future Watch by Gary H. Anthes
APRIL 05, 2004 - Most information junkies would be hard-pressed to name anything that has transformed their professional lives as much as Internet search engines have. The miraculous devices can take your hot topic of the day, scan millions of Web pages and in seconds bring back product announcements, research papers, the names of experts and more - things that would be difficult or impossible to find otherwise.
But as powerful as they are, search engines have huge weaknesses. For example, a recent Google search on the word Linux took just 0.4 seconds, but it had 95 million hits. Too bad if the one you need is No. 10,000 on the list..."
