Cautions in Searching

• Mention is not Aboutness, but . . .

• Aboutness is not Relevance

• Relevance is in the eye of the beholder

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Whenever I talk about searching and indexing, especially where machines are in the process, I must remind myself these cautions:

mention and aboutness

aboutness and relevance

relevance not a universal property