At 05:06 PM 7/7/2003 -0400, Bradleys wrote: >Steven C. Barr's views are congruent with my own. > >Google is a good model to consider. How useful would Google be for most of >us most of the time if it only indexed important sites and the most >important parts of those sites on the internet? For me it would have very >limited usefulness. Because Google indexes everything and doesn't try to >make a decision as to what matters we can find things that are amazing. The expense is for conversion to Google-friendly records from paper/film/tape and Google does not YET index sound or image records for content. That raises the ante somewhat (understatement). Virage, DATE, and others do some of this. Cheers, Richard