The Web continues to grow rapidly. Users find it difficult to know where to spend their browsing time. Web site owners find it difficult to attract visitors. Information aggregators help with these problems.
The Web is constantly growing and changing. The key issue for users of the Web is to know what is there that might help them, or inform them, or entertain them, and to find out in a timely fashion without spending all their time looking. There are two main ways to do this, searches and summaries.
A busy chief executive comes bustling into the conference room. His staff is all gathered. They are ready to summarize the information important to him. He says, \"Give me the short version.\" After absorbing this summary view, he says, \"Now, give me the details.\" Most of us do not have a staff, but we would also like to know what is important now and the Web is often our source of current information. Is there a way for us to \"summarize the Web\"?
One way of looking at online research is as a project that starts with searches and ends with summaries. The online researcher searches for information to meet the needs of their client and produces a summary report for the client. Information aggregators help in the production and display of summary views and are therefore a natural tool for the online researcher. What kinds of information aggregator features would be most helpful for online researchers?
The vast majority of the Web is intended for human readers. The goal has been to create an online experience for human beings. It is an open and ever growing body of information. This is all great, but it does present some problems. There is just too much there. We aren\'t sure what information to trust. We can get lost in the Web and waste a lot of time. So we need some software tools to help us, but the information itself is not structured in a way that software can easily deal with. Enter the machine readable Web.
A new and important role is emerging on the Web, Web summary author, also known as newsmaster, information DJ, current awareness maven, or RSS channel provider.
A new and important role is emerging on the Web, Web summary author, also known as newsmaster, information DJ, current awareness maven, or RSS channel provider.
The vast majority of the Web is intended for human readers. The goal has been to create an online experience for human beings. It is an open and ever growing body of information. This is all great, but it does present some problems.
One way of looking at online research is as a project that starts with searches and ends with summaries. The online researcher searches for information to meet the needs of their client and produces a summary report for the client.
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