Interesting link sent to me by the author, Terrence A. Brooks, describing some of the tricks and tactics used to register content in the Google search service. The author employs the term 'lay indexing' to describe the 'plebiscites' used to organize and rank pages by link freuqency and page rank. The end of the article looks into the question of the 'meaning' missed by Google, both because there are areas of the deep web it still does not harvest, and because the semantics of language do not translate into a purely text-based search. Interesting. More papers are available from the April edition of Information Research, which came online today.
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