ASK and the Church of Google
Hmm, the well-known ASK (anomalous state of knowledge) model with its depiction of iterative retrieval requests by a human being to “the” information system in order to solve a badly-understood problem by supplying underspecified resources
[see Belkin N, Oddy R, Brooks H (1982) ASK for information retrieval: I. Journal of Documentation 38(2):61-71]
works just a little too well with this view from The Church of Google. What on earth would Paul Kantor say if it turned out that ASK were actually a metaphysical theory?
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