| The virtue of virtual libraries |
Jones, M. (2001) Independent Digital (UK), July. |
I spent last weekend walking along several beautiful New Zealand beaches. Sam, my two-year-old, trotted along beside me, often stopping to pick up interesting bits of the tidal debris. One moment heu2019d hand me a smelly piece of seaweed, the next, a rather beautiful mother-of-pearl shell. To many of us, using the Web to search for information isnu2019t really surfing; itu2019s more like beachcoming. Type your keywords into a popular search engine, such as Google (which has full-text index of over a billion web documents), and you will be presented with hundreds or even thousands of possibilities. Many, though, will be some real pearls, just what you were looking for. This article is available here. |