Death of the Free Network?
Rita Vine, a professional librarian, has written an insightful article about the state of the search engine, in the wake of the new boom in business for Google. The Article wonders is we are approaching “The Death of the Search Engine”, citing that:
- Search engine indexes are way too big.
- Keyword guessing is getting harder.
- Search engines use outdated retrieval-and-sort mechanisms.
- Organizations are starting to pay for content that could be found for free on the web … if only the searcher knew where to look.
- Search weariness may finally be setting in.
- Has the time come for mass market paid web content?
this last, well, it bothers me. I prefer ideas like that silly little dream held by the clinton administration that internet access should be a public utility, like water or electricity, because information is a basic human right. unfortunately, basic human rights also tend to be lucrative business opportunities, they are what people will most pay for. It will be interesting to see what happens.
I was suprised, in an article by a librarian, not to see very much mention of human methods that might be the solution to the mechanical ones.
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