[Sigia-l] Findability

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"Steven L. MacCall, Ph.D." wrote:

> The 7 year old and the imbecile (and, by extension, those who naively
> believe that one of the top ten returned document links on a given Google
> search page for "dog" or "Iranian nuclear warfare" queries will satisfy
> everyone's information needs on those topics in a timely manner) may never
> understand this. LIS professionals (and, presumably, Karl) understand this
> implicitly. The machine that understands this and therefore behaves
> accordingly will be the breakthrough!

I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you saying Google is not precise
enough, per any given user?

Would you say Google satisfies most of the people most of the time?

Ziya
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