2003.04.19 @ 2317

I just read a really interesting article referenced from slash dot on a distributed search engine. How they can have tons of computers working to index the net. I can see that this will be the way that computers will go. Everything will be distributed and have redundancies. The people that will insert false information will be tagged and / or their data will just be dropped because it will not correspond to others that did similar work. Just like at school, when 5 people get the same answer, but the 6th gets something different, that sets off bells.

At the beginning of the article, I was nodding and mentalling agreeing with how they were "building a better search engine", but I swung around after reading the comments from the google rep. I don't really care how many pages the search engine that I am using hits, as long as I can find the information in the first page that it returns. Hopefully in the first 3 links. If it goes past that, I get impatient and angry. Or I think of other key words that might turn up the info that I am looking for.

Most days I want a crystal ball. I just want to see how things turn out. I want to know the new technologies, how society has organized itself, the moral decisions that people as a whole have decided on (or the ones that the few has chosen for the many). I just have this intense desire to know. It can be very frustrating sometimes.

Listening to: Wide Mouth Mason - Superstition