[Sigia-l] Findability

Listera listera at rcn.com
Mon Jan 27 14:14:39 EST 2003


"Lars Marius Garshol" wrote:

> To use your analysis, you found a "stout called Guinness", "Guinness
> World Records", and "Sir Alec Guinness". If you had used a real
> ontology system that's what the search results would have shown, for
> example like this:
> 
> Topic                    Type
> ----------------------   ------------
> Guinness                 Beer product
> Guinness World Records   Web site
> Sir Alec Guiness         Person
> 
> By navigating in a concept space rather than in document space you
> could have experienced something closer to real findability.

Call me delusional, but isn't that precisely what the "Similar pages" link
attached at the end of each Google result item is for, minus the highfalutin
name?

Best,

Ziya




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