In-Depth Understanding: Teaching Search Engines to Interpret Meaning [Point of View]

As a member of the search engine industry, the author observes that the community appears to be perversely enamored by the last good idea back at the dawn of the Web. Sure, there have been tweaks to relevance ranking and substantial gains in scalability to keep up with the growth of the Web and electronic publication repositories. But overall, there has been a stupendous lack of radical innovation in search. The author considers an example in the use of search applications by professional users.