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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (11492)	10/11/2003 9:27:38 AM
From: Sam Citron	Respond to of 13815

Good question, Lizzie. One possible reason natural language search has not been more widely adopted is that it is usually a bit less efficient than boolean. For example, if I wanted to determine the name of the inventor of X, I could ask jeeves, "Who invented X?" or I could ask Google simply "inventor X", saving a few characters of text. Of course, efficiency is mainly about hitting the bulls eye and therefore the results matter the most, which is where Google really shines through its referential search algorithm. If I were teaching a seventh grade class, I would certainly expose my class to both search engines. At that level, it would not surprise me if most students preferred Ask Jeeves. I think they would still benefit, however, to an exposure to boolean search techniques. BTW, Lexis-Nexis adopted a natural language search option back in 1990, if I remember correctly. (I was in law school at the time and had a free account.) Another BTW: did you know that you can get Google to do a crude proximity search using wildcard "*"? Just google "google proximity search" and you will find out how. Sam

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (11492)	10/13/2003 3:08:54 AM
From: Sig	Respond to of 13815

Its buying time....... finance.yahoo.com^DJI&t=1y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=^IXIC The huge losses posted by such companies as GLW, NT, and LU are in the past.And companies were forced to downsize, cur costs, become more efficient and productive. The recovery from the recent market lows has not kept up with the improvement in earnings now being realized. We should be up (or soon will be up) 100% off those lows. Which means a NAS of about 2500, coming soon, near you. And with the DOW closing in on 12k. That level can be reached surprisingly soon, as confidence returns. It was rapidly down off the market highs when the bubble burst, now its can be the reverse. Swiftly up. The low value of the dollar is expected to benefit earnings of global companies like IBM and Intc. That would be nice, we will find out this week. Regards Sig