Overwhelming Data Mining

    I am a everyday user of search engines like Google. I use it to look up movie times, recipes, and I always use it to start off my research on projects but I never really put much thought in the importance of such a tool. The actual work that goes into searching millions of websites and databases can cause anyone a headache.
    There is an extreme about of variables that go into how a search engine mines through every individual piece of information out there. It takes in consideration the chance of misspellings and all the ways a researcher can search a topic like U.S. History or American History or History of the United States. The programmers and programs have to take in account how people think and how they expect their information to be presented to them.
    Aside from the scientific programming of mining data, a relationship forms between history and the immediate present. At any moment we can search an issue or topic and because there is an extensive about of organizing based on a classification of words, letters, and numbers, we can access information that may have been lost over time but now can be read at any computer across the world.
    I will admit I am completely lost when it comes to understanding the detail and science that goes into data mining for search engines. But I am forever grateful for the easy accessibility that it offers.