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Finding Out about: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW [With Book with CDROM]
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Book Overview
Finding Out About explains how to build useful tools for searching collections of text and other media. In the process it takes a close look at the properties of textual documents that do not become... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521630282
ISBN13:9780521630283
Release Date:February 2001
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 7.3" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I found this to be a wonderful book about Search Engines. If you like history, math, computer science, and how we can make computers communicate effectively with people, then this book is a great read. With current Search Engines, we enter some words and get back a bibliography. I look forward to a sequel: "Answer Engines: How You Can Enter a Short, Simple Question and Get Back a Short, Simple Answer (NOT a list of things to read)!"
A refreshing alternative perspective...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
I wonder if I was reading the same book as a couple of the reviewers! IMHO there are (too) many books in this field that deal with how search engines work, but the more 'slippery' concepts associated with how people actually use them to find about information have received much less attention.The book provides a very welcome cognitive science perspective on a discipline often dominated by those who seek overly simple mechanistic formulas and 'answers' to very tricky 'questions'.
This is the search engine Bible.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Though I have not Taken Dr. Belew's class, I know he is a consumate professional in his field. His Ideas are new and revolutionary. There are a lot of concepts in the book that I am still trying to grasp, but Belew really does a good job of explaining new concepts in a comprehensive way. He is really an asset to the Computer Science community.
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