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Searching for Google's Successor
by Angel Gonzalez
Wired, August 14, 2001

Now there's a whole new generation of search engines trying to find new ways to top Google's accuracy or optimize the way that results are organized to make them easier to go through.

Some of them want to beat Google at its own game of being the universal search engine; others simply want to be specific research tools, increasing the depth while reducing the scope of a search.

Search Engine Models of the Future
by Paul Bruemmer
ClickZ, August 1, 2000 (note the date)

As the Internet becomes increasingly significant in our lives, the power and importance of search engines is enormous. Yet search technology has not kept pace with the endless expansion of the Internet, nor does search indexing provide an impartial and universal database. Paul reports on the new search models proposed by researchers and theoreticians of web infrastructure.

Graphical Thesaurus

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The Brain's WebBrain

The Smithsonian's History Wired project has a great search interface.

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, and Future Directions
by Stuart L. Weibel and Traugott Koch
D-Lib Magazine, December 2000

The major standard for describing digital objects. A brief history of the effort, reviews of the year's milestones, lists of working groups, key documents, and related web sites.

Antarcti.ca Systems' Maps of Networks

Map.net - Maps of the Web

Companies around the world have invested immense amounts of financial and human capital in deploying Intranets and Extranets. Yet using this data becomes increasingly difficult as networks grow large and complex. Without easy access to relevant information, users quickly give up their search.

TAXI to the Future
by Tim Bray
XML.com, March 14, 2001

TAXI: Transform, Aggregate, send XML, Interact

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