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The post-WWII ‘information explosion’ meant that we have a lot of info and not great means of looking through it to find what we want. …

Search has co-opted the citation, vis-à-vis the hyperlink The post-WWII ‘information explosion’ meant that we have a lot of info and not great means of looking through it to find what we want. This is a form of information retrieval and way of answering questions . Inefficient search leads to knowledge gaps errors repeating research times spent searching knowledge silos Finding stuff is hard because theres a lot of things (large haystack, small needle) semantic meaning and intention is hard to extract/understand search systems are not complete individuals have different requirements for what t

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