This column is about the human need for collection and the resulting request for retrieval. The conclusions drawn by the author about what all this means for media searching culminates in a proposition on what research on media searching should address.
Citation:
Jonathan Foote, "Kooks, Obsessives, Sturgeon's Law, and the Real Meaning of Search," IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 4-7, July-Sept. 2005, doi:10.1109/MMUL.2005.49