Alongwith standardizing the way the search engines take the search query, I
feel that there should also be some standard with regard to specifying the
context in which a search is being performed.
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Let's also require that all natural language query systems use English.
In other words, there are good reasons why successful IETF standards
have generally avoid user interfaces....No, that's wrong. It's not only
the IETF that has avoided successful user interface standards. Anyone
who's coded with the zillions of GUI toolkits over the years knows that
"successful user interface standard" is an oxyomoron
Until the world is willing to standardize on a single dialect of
a single human-to-human interface, why should there be a single
flavor of human-to-computer interface?
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com