[Web4lib] Authority + Wikipedia

[Levine, Jenny]

> Seriously, it would be great to have this sort of control (and algorithmic
> transparency)...perhaps Yahoo! will deliver that sort of openness in order
> to beat Google. Otherwise, we'll need an open source search engine.

Yahoo is already working on this -- http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/. Link courtesy of Gary Price, who has highlighted this in the past on Resourceshelf (http://resourceshelf.com/).

Jenny
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Jenny Levine
Internet Development Specialist
Metropolitan Library System
http://www.mls.lib.il.us/