• From: Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@i...>
• To: "'Tim Bray'" <tbray@t...>, Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@i...>, xml-dev@x...
• Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:24:51 +0100

> I think what you're talking about would normally be called an 
> Information-Retrieval (IR) system.  Such a system is distinguished from 
> traditional search engines in the general case in that nobody has ever 
> successfully built one that, in the general case, works.

True, but I'll settle for 50% precision and 70% recall. That's better than I
get when I visit the library.

Mike Kay

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