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What's wrong with search engines | |||||||
Currently, the major Internet search engines search for documents that contain information rather for the information itself.
But I wish search engines searched for information, not for documents.
In order to illustrate what I mean lets say the internet has five documents (html pages) about the sun.
Here are those five documents' content:
The first document:
The second document:
The third document:
The fourth document:
And lastly, the fifth document:
The other documents (in the internet) make no reference about the sun.
Now, the 'internet' lists the following seven facts about the sun:
I want my search engine to return these facts when I enter sun. However, currently, search engines return the five documents. Each document
lists three facts. So, I have to read 5 times 3 (=15) facts in order to learn 7 facts. That is, I have to read twice as much information as
necessary.
I hope, future search engines can do that work for me.
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