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Thought you might be interested in this article: Web Site Makeover: Legacy Retrieval Tools Save Time For Users By Jean Graef, Founder of the Montague Institute, special to TheContentWrangler.com In the pre-Internet days, users relied on indexes, tables of contents, databases, card catalogs, and annotated bibliographies to find information. These “legacy retrieval tools” worked reasonably well in the orderly system created by editors, publishers, and librarians. With the World Wide Web came a new kind of system: a giant electronic warehouse with no shelves, no labels, no maps, and even no lights. Into this virtual warehouse, we dumped a huge pile of content — much of it lacking author, publisher, subject, publication date or even a meaningful title. By default, full text search emerged as the dominant retrieval tool because there was nothing else. We now know that… Read the rest: http://www.thecontentwrangler.com/article/1201/

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