New York Times: Two Indexing Methods
July 31, 2009
Teragram, a unit of SAS SAP, provides software that automatically indexes content for the New York Times’s Web site. I saw a tweet on my Overflight service that pointed out that the newspaper uses humans to create the New York Times Index, a more traditional index. You can find the tweet here. If true, why won’t the Teragram system do both jobs? When financial corsets get yanked tighter, something has to give. My thought is that if the tweet is accurate, is redundancy cost effective? An indication that neither works particularly well? There is a political logic, not a financial logic, at work?
Stephen Arnold, July 31, 2009
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Teragram (www.teragram.com) is a division of SAS – not SAP.
Peter Lipps,
Thanks, I misstyped.
Stephen Arnold, July 31, 2009
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