Re: [Air-l] Looking for good search-engine literature

--- Ben Peters <bjpeters@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm Ben Peters, a doctoral student at Columbia struggling with how to study search-engines. There's the problem of plenty: searching search-engines produces a library of material with no card catalog. There's the problem of self-reflection: studying search-engines through search-engines makes one pause to consider. Must one remove herself from the medium in order to study it (and other second-order issues)? But how else can one study a subject so young, except by using it to study itself? <snip>

This may be so obvious as to have been already considered: start by seraching the indexes of a good library.