Finding Anything in the Billion Page Web

• Panel session on “Finding Anything in the Billion Page Web: Are Algorithms the Key?”

• Panelists from Excite, AltaVista (Compaq) and Yahoo!

• Hardware is not a significant barrier

• Improved software algorithms will be important. E.g

  • Citation analysis (cf Google)
  • User profiles
  • Specialist search engines (implies 2-layer searches)

• Search engine vendors may discard embedded metadata

• Search engine vendors may make use of trusted third-party metadata

• Conclusions in line with UK HE’s interests!

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