a looking-glass book

more search madness

i posted this a few weeks ago on wwmx and searches. then kurt posted his comments after curtis and stephen spoke.

now i found this article about google.

its interesting to note:
the system i proposed in my paper is built on the idea of sorting based on a subjective, opinion-based collection of textual data.

(what follows is complete conjecture on my part)
but the vast majority of searches are for factual data. we use the web, when searching as an encyclopedia. (there are exceptions, of course.) do we need another way to markup/recognize fact from opinion? we can all agree that led zeppelin's third studio album was 'III'. but we can't agree on what their best album was. ('houses of the holy' or 'II')

can my system be applied to factual data as well? what would happen?

and where is the almanac for the web?