Header

    Envisioning Search Engines in 1945

    published on Tue. Feb. 13th, '07 by Swami Atma

    This is a blog post about an article written in 1945.

    Before the tools even existed, the author pretty much announced what Google does today.

    A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

    Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of the systems of indexing. ... Having found one item, moreover, one has to emerge from the system and re-enter on a new path.

    Vannevar Bush - written in 1945

    Here is the blog post where I found this.

    Here is the original full article.

    Posted in: Computers | comments disabled (?)