[Sigia-l] re: the future of search

[javier velasco]

The primary school I went to had a beautiful library, it was said to be 
one of the biggest in the city at that time. There was a man who worked 
there for *lots* of years, he was a living legend among students for his 
ability to give you what you needed.

You would come to this man with a request for a subject, if he had 
different material on the same subject he asked things like what you 
needed it for, or he'd explain to you the differences between the 
available publications. Then, he'd send you to a particular shelf with a 
description of the book's color, size and thickness, and to open the 
book in a particular chapter - sometimes the precise page - that held 
the solution to your need.

If a search engine could to that, it would be perfect for me.

javier velasco