Can't we make it a little more Google?
As I work for a Library Management software vendor it is perhaps not surprising that I have some what of an interest in search technologies. However, what I believe is surprising is the lack of interest many software packages seem to have in this technology. In the "Information Age" search technology is perhaps the king of all technologies. Search technology has grown up a lot in the last few years, perhaps Google's dominance and wealth from being a market leader in this technology has elevated the lowly searches status, but quite simply I wonder why it has been neglected for so long. I remember a time of using multiple web search engines, Webcrawler was my early favourite, but Altavista soon became superior, then it was a 50/50 battle with Altavista and Yahoo, and then all of a sudden Google came from no where and won. Anyway early searches tended to follow the wildcard boolean search paradigm. i.e. you had to be very specific a search for child would not retu...