Comments on: Are Webpages Documents? http://edutechie.com/2007/02/are-webpages-documents/ Where Education and Technology Intersect Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:13:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jeff VanDrimmelen http://edutechie.com/2007/02/are-webpages-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-403 Jeff VanDrimmelen Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:57:13 +0000 http://www.edutechie.com/2007/02/are-webpages-documents/#comment-403 Tonight Google Operating System posted <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/02/doing-whats-important.html" rel="nofollow">an interesting article</a> about doing what's important.  At the end of that article they said: <blockquote>Google hopes to improve the quality of the search results, because books contain much valuable information than web sites. "Google has become known for providing access to all of the world's knowledge, and if we provide access to books we are going to get much higher-quality and much more reliable information.</blockquote> I'm not sure how this fits in, but it seems to be important when thinking about 'documents.'  Google realizes, perhaps, that the internet just needs to contain all the information.  They use the term 'documents' do describe it all.  Good/Bad, useful/useless, etc. etc. Tonight Google Operating System posted an interesting article about doing what’s important.  At the end of that article they said:

Google hopes to improve the quality of the search results, because books contain much valuable information than web sites. “Google has become known for providing access to all of the world’s knowledge, and if we provide access to books we are going to get much higher-quality and much more reliable information.

I’m not sure how this fits in, but it seems to be important when thinking about ‘documents.’  Google realizes, perhaps, that the internet just needs to contain all the information.  They use the term ‘documents’ do describe it all.  Good/Bad, useful/useless, etc. etc.

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