If one man's trash is another man's treasure, that must explain the comment by Yahoo's Tim Cadogan that 'integrated information sets' should be developed by editorial staff and product managers so that they could be presented automatically at the top of the search results page for the most common types of user query (such as weather). In some ways it seems as if the four largest portals are today working towards doing more of the 'integrated answer set' work that Ask Jeeves itself has abandoned.
It's amazing how much the wheel gets re-invented because most people don't realise that library science is a lot more than women in buns dusting books. I'd like to see more librarians in on these sorts of meetings, and more marketing of librarian skills to industry. Maybe, if they figured out what we could do, we'd get paid more and be better appreciated.
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