Who Will Create Metadata for the Internet?

Automation cannot currently index the Internet. Human editors are needed, but costly. Indvidual sites have an incentive to index, but no incentive to use a common scheme. An index may be a public good.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on January 4, 1999 at 12:00 am and filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
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