Thursday, July 31, 2003

Digging for Googleholes - Google may be our new god, but it's not omnipotent. By Steven Johnson

We all use Google, but now some problems with using it are coming up. Here many are listed, and it's something to think about. The most interesting one to me was that, as we are researching more and more by net rather than book, and books aren't on the net, it's making for a very big collective blind spot.

At some point, we need a system where a book can be on the web and able to be searched, with maybe paid access or some other system.

I knew for years (just ask my Mom) that we would have a global information market. We ain't there yet, and we are going though the growing pains now.