RE: Dewey Decimal Web Searching

[Fisher Mark <fisherm at tce.com>]

A different approach to the search problem (AKA "drinking from the
firehose") is to use a search engine that uses the # of citations of a
particular URL (links to that URL) as part of the relevancy ranking process.
Google (<http://google.stanford.edu/>) is one such engine.  Google has
become my main search engine because 90-95% of the time, if the information
is on the Web, it will show up in the top 10 results (and usually in the top
3).  It isn't a panacea, but I expect technology like Google's to be adopted
by the other search engines as the word of Google's relevancy ranking
accuracy spreads.
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Mark Leighton Fisher          Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm at indy.tce.com          Indianapolis, IN
"Browser Torture Specialist, First Class"