Tim Bray's latest entry in his ongoing series of posts about search is on metadata:
There is no cheap metadata . Of course, if we could use computers to compute the metadata like Google does, that would be immensely cheaper than having employees do it. And a lot of smart people have invested a lot of effort and money into the problem of deriving metadata from data, but it’s a hard one.
Posted by Karl
July 29, 2003 09:00 PM