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Article: Information on the fly is heading for your desktop. David Tebbutt looks beyond the limitations of search engines to information as it happens, drilling down into the deep web, and introducing a feedmesh.
- Article from:
- Information World Review
- Article date:
- January 17, 2006
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Searching is a fundamental part of your life, right? Whether it's searching third-party databases, your own intranet, the web or your desktop, you're probably never far from a search engine. But the problem with search engines is they look only at the past and they don't look at everything.
Someone at the Online Information conference said: "If it isn't in Google, it probably doesn't exist." While amusing, this is simply not true. The tragedy is that it's what a lot of internal clients believe.
On the desktop, indexing is pretty much real-time, and with third-party providers it is concurrent with the arrival of fresh information. With web search ...