Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Alex Moskalyuk on The Future of Search

Quite often, though, we search for facts and answers. Starting from the simple "What time is it now?" to "What was the pre-IPO valuation for Pets.com?" we search for information—for facts that we know or suspect might exist. A search engine that satisfies this type of search would have to go beyond keywords because keywords produce too much noise and don’t allow the software algorithm to define a relevant solution space. ...


If closed-access databases that charge customers for access were able to somehow integrate their content into the modern search engines, finding exact results would be a lot easier ...



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