Tom Vogt wrote:
> cataloging and database functions while you use some
> computerized search
> engine to sift through it. but any search engine relies either on the
> meaningfullness of full-text search, which is questionable, or on some
> kind of catalogue, even if it's just META keywords. in the later case,
> the better the catalogue is done, the better your search results.
I guess you're new to the list -- the late Gerard Salton proved in 1971 that
even the best hand-indexing can't compete with a search engine that supports
relevancy ranking, a thesaurus, and user feedback. The complete
bibliographic reference is below my .signature.
[Jeez, I'm starting to feel like Tim, here -- "check the archives, Luke"...]
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Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
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"Their walls are built of cannon balls, their motto is
'Don't Tread on Me'"
Salton, Gerard (1971). A New Comparison Between Conventional Indexing
(MEDLARS) and Automatic Text Processing (SMART). Cornell University Computer
Science Technical Report CS TR71-115,
<URL:http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu:80/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.cornell%2f
TR71-115>
