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January 29, 2005

Tagging the Internet

On Wall Street Journal, Jeremy Wagstaff wrote:

Wouldn't it be great if you could actually find stuff on the Internet? Sure, Google is a wonderful tool for searching for some things -- say the home page of a company, or how to make Battenberg cake. But more often than not, you'll get way too many hits for what you're looking for, and end up frustrated.

It isn't surprising, really: Google is now indexing more than 8 billion Web pages, against 2 billion three years ago and 3 billion two years ago. That's a lot of pages. As David Weinberger of Harvard University's Berkman Center puts it: "We've been struggling for several years with the Internet's size and complexity." So is there a better way of finding stuff?

Posted by Xiao at January 29, 2005 09:25 PM

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