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Web has become a science!

June 10, 2009 by agawish | 1 Comment

2 days ago, I reaad a killing comment on this article titled ” We no longer fully understand the web?” as the commenter said “We have created a Monster!”, that sure cracked me up.

When I read the article, and that Berners Lee is creating a whole science, a Web Science that interesects with many sciences already, like social, psychology, technology and more…

It’s the new millennium science, and its what most of the people will talk about for the next decade.

The article also discuss the matter, that websites are effecting the peoples life, in business and many other fields in life, thats why we should treat it as a new whole science.
Hope to read more about it, and the new magazine it talks about, Web Science Magazine.

Heba

i understand why the commenter said “We have created a Monster!”, we should turn it to a science years ago from the start . although it is late but it is a good step in order to organize the web. for ma as librarian i care about a lot of issues like web organizing, evaluating web resources , searching tools and as Bergman has said “that searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean; a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed” he ment the invisible web ,Those Dark Hiding Places that most of us cannot reach .In 2000, it was estimated that the invisible Web contained approximately 7,500 terabytes of data and 550 billion individual documents it consists of about 91,000 terabytes. By contrast, the surface Web or the visible one (which is easily reached by search engines) is only about 167 terabytes; the Library of Congress, in 1997, was estimated to have perhaps 3,000 terabytes and sure those numbers have been trebled by now ….web has become a science .. i like that