[WEB4LIB] Search engines and positronic brains

[John Williams]

Of the top 10 links 2 appear to be dead and one is a duplicate. None of
them answer the question posed, they just point to data which contains
the words "Riverbank Publications". In fact asking no question (just
enter "Riverbank Publications") gets almost identical results.

John Williams


Joyce Ward wrote:
> 
> I took the Ask Jeeves challenge, then I did the same query:
> 
> What are the Riverbank Publications?
> 
> in Northern Light.  You can see the results here:
> 
> http://www.northernlight.com/nlquery.fcg?cb=200&cc=&us=025&dx=2000&qr=What+are+the+Riverbank+Publications%3F&si=&search.x=22&search.y=16
> 
> Note that the top 10 documents or so are relevant, and that we generate a
> a folder for 'Cryptography'.
>