[Sigia-l] re: the future of search

[Blake Carver]

>> 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?

I think James Weinheimer answered this perfectly!

I'd also just add it should not be about speed. Good research takes time,
sometimes a looooong time.
Good research should not be about efficiency, it's about finding the best
possible sources and answers to your question.

This has been a wonderful thread.

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