I ran across this recent interview with James Michalko, the director of RLG about Information Access on the Wide Open Web
He hits a lot of issues related to the difficulties of searching on the Web. His comment on availability of scholarly resources on the Web, "Some firms, such as Amazon, have created algorithms and done the computational analysis that asks, 'Did you really mean this?' and says 'If this is what you want, then you will find the following things relevant.' We must deliver authoritative trusted information using those kinds of paradigms or we will simply become museums of long-term storage instead of current use. These are some of the ways in which the CS community could make accessible on behalf of the broad Internet community enormous amounts of wonderful resources that right now are either inaccessible or severely under used."
Posted by amdonovan at March 10, 2003 01:03 PM