The state of search engines: CHI2003 and the 8th Infonortics Search Engines Meeting.

From: Searcher | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Search engines now serve as vital tools for enterprises, essential features on Web sites, and, in fact, key components of many applications. Search is a "killer app" for the World Wide Web. Search engines form part of the growing field of "Unstructured Data Management," in contrast with the "Structured Data Management" of databases, ERP (enterprise resource planning), and traditional library catalogs.

This report covers two conferences dealing with different aspects of search. The CHI (computer-human interface) workshop identified conventions for search interfaces and ...

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