Metaphors for Information Retrieval

What is certain is that, with the current rate of growth of information stored online, we will need to develop new metaphors for searching and filtering that information. Many projects and researchers are investigating more intuitive and often more visual ways of finding useful information amongst the useless. If we continue to try to cope with current tools we will certainly be back to Bob Frankenberg's analogy of a library with no shelves, no classification and no lights:

``Information is organised on the Internet as though you took all the books from a library, dumped them in a room and turned off the lights.'' Bob Frankenberg, Novell