A taxonomy of web search (2002) by Andrei Broder is cited by Tony Russell-Rose in A Taxonomy of Enterprise Search and Discovery, which Tony proposes to extend to the enterprise.
This post is more of a reminder than anything else to update the taxonomy of web search of Broder and after updating it, compare it to the taxonomy as “extended” by Russell-Rose. My suspicion is that that basic aspects of web search haven’t changed, even if the vocabulary we use to describe them has, substantially.
BTW, it was 2002 when the American Dialect Society declared “google” to be the “most useful” new word of the year and 2006 when Merriam-Webster included it in the dictionary.
Anyone interested in updating Border’s taxonomy? (Which would include (topic) mapping new terminology to old.)