The March Technology Review has an article by Wade Roush on the future of search technology. Things discussed include Mooter's techniques for improving results by tracking users' responses, Teoma's work on identifying the experts within topic-specific clusters of web documents, Dipsie's efforts to mine the "deep web", and Microsoft activities including AskMSR's NLP question-answering techniques.
Posted by Mark Liberman at February 23, 2004 10:40 PM