New York Times :: Humans vs. Computers, Again. But There's Help for Our Side
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> A current race for a solution goes by the deceptively blah
> name of "knowledge management," or K.M. It is an effort to
> bring Google-like clarity to the swamp of data on each
> person's machine or network, and it is based on the
> underappreciated tension between a computer's capacity and
> a person's. Modern computers "scale" well, as the
> technologists say - that is, the amount of information they
> can receive, display and store goes up almost without
> limit. Human beings don't scale. They have finite amounts
> of time, attention and, even when they're younger than the
> doddering baby boomers, short-term memory. The more e-mail,
> Web links and attached files lodged in their computer
> systems, the harder it can be for people to find what they
> really want.

I've never understood why you can't do a Boolean search using the Search function on Windows. As far as I have been able to figure it out, you can only do single word or phrase searches. This doesn't seem like it would be technically that challenging. Google can do it with 4 billion web documents.

Incidently, Google's Gmail is now available for regular users of Blogger. Very elegant. 1 GB storage. Ads, yes, but they're very unobtrusive. And with its search function, it addresses this very problem.
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 7:26 AM

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