Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] internet egalitarianism (was "Need totalk...")

[Mikhail Kovalenko <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> I think you are only partly right.  Of course most things 'published' on
> the net are not read by most people.  But the situation isn't as bad as
> you make it out to be.  If Google has found your page -- and it almost
> certainly *will* find it if you want it to -- someone searching for the
> info you are presenting could easily find your page.  It's not so easy to
> find a rare book in the dusty corner of someone's basement!
> 

A few months ago someone expressed concern that even the Internet can have its 
dark corners. If a search returns thousands (or even hundreds) of hits to a 
relatively specific query, the lowest-ranked results usually go unseen. How 
many people look beyond the 15th page on Google? Google is so good, it rarely 
returns results that are still relevant past a few pages, so what's the point, 
right? I guess it is "survival of the fittest" of sorts applied to information. :)

-- 
MK

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