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Finding Out About: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard K. Belew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1921850
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0521734460
Dewey Decimal Number: 025.04
EAN: 9780521734462
ASIN: 0521734460
Publication Date: July 14, 2008
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Product Description
The World Wide Web is rapidly filling with more text than anyone could have imagined a short time ago. However, the task of determining which data is relevant has become appreciably harder. In this original new work Richard Belew brings a cognitive science perspective to the study of information as a computer science discipline. He introduces the idea of Finding Out About (FOA), the process of actively seeking out information relevant to a topic of interest. Belew describes all facets of FOA, ranging from creating a good characterization of what the user seeks to evaluating the successful performance of search engines. His volume clearly shows how to build many of the tools that are useful for searching collections of text and other media. While computer scientists make up the book's primary audience, Belew skillfully presents technical details in a manner that makes important themes accessible to readers more comfortable with words than equations. Resources are available from the book's web site
Book Description
New technologies for the Internet have radically altered the way we capture cultural knowledge in electronic artifacts, as well as the ways we can communicate it to one another. This text is focused on a key aspect of this information explosion, "finding out about": identifying "documents", which might be Email messages, Web pages, even images or video, that help an individual to learn more about a topic of interest. Helping each student to construct their own "search engine" (using code provided) and evaluate its effectiveness is a key feature of the text.
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 Worth having March 26, 2008
I found this to be a wonderful book about Search Engines. If you like history, math, computer science, and how we can make computers communicate effectively with people, then this book is a great read. With current Search Engines, we enter some words and get back a bibliography. I look forward to a sequel: "Answer Engines: How You Can Enter a Short, Simple Question and Get Back a Short, Simple Answer (NOT a list of things to read)!"
A refreshing alternative perspective... November 10, 2003
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I wonder if I was reading the same book as a couple of the reviewers! IMHO there are (too) many books in this field that deal with how search engines work, but the more 'slippery' concepts associated with how people actually use them to find about information have received much less attention. The book provides a very welcome cognitive science perspective on a discipline often dominated by those who seek overly simple mechanistic formulas and 'answers' to very tricky 'questions'.
 Did the author just discover word processing? September 4, 2003
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book, aside from being horribly written, full of awful grammar and confused writing, everything being derivative, etc. (see the next review), suffers from over-stylization. The author seems to have just discovered the bold, italic and underline buttons of his word processor and does not hesitate to use them, along with quotation marks, all caps and margin notes, almost interchangeably. This makes the book very hard to read because your eyes are going from one... styled word or phrase to another.Please, don't buy this book or use it for your course.
Composition of blocks from works of other authors February 22, 2003
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
Bunch of blocks and citations from other authors with absolutely no explanations. It doesnt look like author understands anything that he borrowed from others to compose this book or dare to give one calculation example or derive a formula. Horrible, horrible book for a novice.
This is the search engine Bible. April 4, 2001
9 out of 24 found this review helpful
Though I have not Taken Dr. Belew's class, I know he is a consumate professional in his field. His Ideas are new and revolutionary. There are a lot of concepts in the book that I am still trying to grasp, but Belew really does a good job of explaining new concepts in a comprehensive way. He is really an asset to the Computer Science community.
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