July/August 2009
On Answers
Four kinds of search engines.
By Jason Pontin
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Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher.
Credit: Mark Ostow |
Search engines are knowledge systems that we ask, "What is known?" The answers we get reflect the questions the systems' designers allow, which in turn reflect designers' conceptions of what is knowable and useful to know.
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