Bye Bye HyperText: The End of the World (Wide Web) As We Know It

[Robb Scholten]

I am inclined to favor a combination of quality index searching followed 
by user interaction with the retrieval set to drill down into large 
databases.  Interestingly enough the database retrieval system we use for 
our databases has been doing this for years, long before anyone even coined 
the term "neural net."  Because we knew that most endusers would use 
keyword queries, we automatically map to indexes.  This is perhaps why 
our retrieval sets continue to rank number 1 in every test conducted 
since 1984.

The thing that I like about WiseWire is that not only can users rank 
their own retrieval and "teach" the engine what is most useful to them, 
but they can also invoke the search strategies of "experts" in the 
field.  If I were a librarian today, I would call WiseWire up and 
volunteer to impart my wisdom in the form of quality searches in 
particular disciplines.

Robb Scholten
Clinical Computing
Beth Israel Hospital