Rosalie Polotte Chapter 4

Chapter four is introduced with a touching story about Rosalie Polotsky, a woman who was separated from her cousins in 1937. In 2007, Rosalie’s nephew typed “Polotsky” into Google and the family was able to reunite. The authors follow the story up with a comparison between the Web “in the beginning,” and how the internet is now. Back then, the authors write, “the Web was a library.” Now, because of the inexpensive cost to create a website and the lack of structure, content is constantly changing and it is much harder to find what you are looking for. The following steps are how a search engine finds answers to questions: gather information, keep copies, build an index, understand the query, determine the relevance of each possible result,