Searching by Keyword

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Theoretically, the user could teach the mimics which words were relevant to each other. In essence, the memiks user could build their own little analogue algorithm for search. The idea of searching documents by specific word and then linking related documents together turned out to be right on the mark. About 50 years after venevar dreamed up the memics, his ideas about search came to fruition with a little thing called the world wide web.

Adam Rogers has been thinking and writing about what’s known in the industry simply as "search." For the last decade, people have been grumbling about not being able to find things online, both in our private data and on the public web, despite ever-evolving algorithms. Ever since humans started writing stuff down, the struggle has been in how to organize it all so that its contents wouldn't be lost in the stacks. Search has always been an attempt to fix that problem.

Search and Ye Might Find