[Sigia-l] re: the future of search

[Listera]

"karl fast" wrote:

> Why is rat urine so important for archaeologists?
> What does is mean to "fly mexican?"
 
> It will be a long time before software can answer questions like
> this the way a human can.

Would you want a librarian who may *not* have heard about urinating rats or
flying mexicans to help you or, say, a search engine that can parse 5
billion docs a la Google to get you into the ballpark in less than a second?
It'd be an interesting contest. I'm not sure who'd win at the end of the
day, for efficiency. Do you?

Best,

Ziya