Others default to a directory structure (Open
Directory, Yahoo!, Look Smart and others).
Had such a standard existed (an agreed upon numerical
cataloguing method) - each site would have self-classified.
Sites would have an interest to do so to increase their
penetration rates and their visibility. This, naturally, would
have eliminated the need for today's clunky, incomplete and
(highly) inefficient search engines.
A site whose number starts with 900 will be immediately
identified as dealing with history and multiple classification
will be encouraged to allow finer cross-sections to emerge. An
example of such an emerging technology of "self
classification" and "self-publication" (though limited to
scholarly resources) is the "Academic Resource Channel" by
Scindex.
Users will not be required to remember reams of numbers.
Future browsers will be akin to catalogues, very much like the
applications used in modern day libraries. Compare this utopia
to the current dystopy. Users struggle with reams of
irrelevant material to finally reach a partial and
disappointing destination.
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