DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, invented the Internet. Now, they've invented a totally different search engine, MEMEX. The rationale for this in the words of the program leader is “Right now, the way people are asking and answering analysis questions is by a lot of manual search and querying… We want to enable the discovery of that content which is relevant to them and the presentation of it for analysis. We’ve started with one domain, the human trafficking domain, as one example to show how useful it is to do this strategy. In the end we want it to be useful for any domain of interest.”
While Google and other search engines do make life easier, it takes a lot of work to analyze the results of searches. Memex provides a way to minimize that work. Listen to the following NPR interview.
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