CHAPTER 16
Future Directions
Given the ubiquitous need for unified, understandable access to large volumes of heterogeneous data, and the rapidity and cost-effectiveness of Search Based Application platforms in meeting this need, one can anticipate a sharp increase in the number of search-based applications deployed in the enterprise and over the Internet in the coming decade.
It is a trend that dovetails not only with the ever-increasing volume, diversity and complexity of information stores, but with the general shift toward task-based Information Retrieval. Workers and consumers trying to perform a task or make a decision need not only access to the full breadth of information available, but by necessity to have it sharply distilled and presented ...
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