Searching for search engine metaphors.(METAPHORS IN ACTION)(Viewpoint essay)

From: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Gozzi, Raymond, Jr. | Copyright information

The search engine is one of the most important pieces of the Internet system. There may be billions of web pages in existence, but if we can't find what we are looking for, these pages are useless. We can use many metaphors to describe and understand search engines. The search engine is a "doorway" to the vast and dizzying universe of the Internet. Or is it a "telescope"? Or is the search engine a "map developer"? A "dictionary"?

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