begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, May 12, 2005 at 01:48:38PM +0700: [snip] > I'm not so sure of that. Despite the huge amounts of data I am actually > more able to find things now than ever. Thunderbird or mutt both > automatically sort my email, the search functionalities work great, etc.
Mutt is great, sure. But it get harder every year to find stuff in my email archives. I don't see it getting any better. > But even more impressive is google. I often don't even bookmark things > anymore. I just google it the next time I need it and it is usually the > top link. Rarely is what I need on google the top link (I don't feel lucky) unless I've managed to find what I'm looking for, and then refined the search based on other keywords in what I've found. > I probably hit google a dozen times in a day. Sure, I would As do I. And I generally utterly fail at least twice a day, often more, in finding what I'm looking for. Not because google says there's nothing there, but after a quarter-hour of looking through the results, refining the search, etc., I generally give up. (This isn't to say that I _never_ find what I'm looking for... but I fail to find what I'm looking for an awful lot. And more and more of the stuff I get to look at is very nearly entirely unrelated to what I need -- and, like as not, a PDF or PPT document.) > love some artificial technology that can correctly interpret images, > video files, etc. and I agree that is a long way off. But the most Yup. Although there are folks working on it. One day, perhaps... > important thing I search these days is still text. Sometimes that text > is meta-data describing a movie or audio clip or image and while not > ideal it is good enough for now since I rarely search these things. Yes. Text is king. -Stewart "The Web hates me. Probably because I can type." Stremler
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