Friday, April 18, 2003

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MSLifeBits This would fall along the lines of lightweight Knowledge Management: I would like to be able to perform rapid text search on every document I have ever accessed. A very limited-breadth version of this is one of the benefits I get long-term from maintaining a weblog: an index not of every article I accessed, but at least every one worthy of mentioning in the blog (though the index isn't full-text, of course).    In the work environment, extend this idea to searching any non-restricted project document ever created. In practice, I do this all the time with my email archive. In fact, in previous jobs, I have asked for a copy of my predecessor’s Outlook .PST.    Also, I see an opportunity here for Google (or others) to find a lucrative consumer and business market. They could sell me a $20/year subscription to maintain a full-text index of every document I access on-line. Of course they should give me the option to explicitly remove a document from the index. They could even have clever PageRank-type features to weight the importance of an article by the number of times I have accessed it, and perhaps the length of time I spent reading it (as measured by page scrolls, which implies a thick-client download).    It would be a requirement (of mine), that I own (including physical custody) my personal index. The $20/year would pay for another year's access to the service, not for the rights to access my own historical archive.

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