Oh, the memories of Subject Gateways. Anyone else remember those? I
worked on the Agrigate project for several years under an ARC grant via
the Univ of Melbourne, NLA, U of Adelaide, U of Queensland, and I think
one of the NSW unis (can't remember), and CSIRO. It lasted longer than
many, but eventually the partners pulled the plug. And, well, Google.
But what we were doing was a curated web of reliable and evaluated
resources in a specific discipline. Looks like we were ahead of our time.
On 28/05/2022 1:14 pm, Kim Holburn wrote:
I believe the opportunity in search is not to attack Google head-on
with a massive, one-size-fits-all horizontal aggregator, but instead
to*build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize
things in new ways.*
...
Vertical search aggregators
Google is a great example of how the internet enabled scale and
speed: every page on the web returned in an instant. But,
increasingly, we’re seeing that this scale is at odds with a
fundamental human need: *relevance*. Someone who wants to find the
best freelance designer, or the best sushi restaurant, or the best
NFT to buy will not find the answer on Google.
...
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