document: Indexing-neglected and poorly understood The growth of the Internet has highlighted the use of machine indexing . The difficulties in using the Internet as a searching device can be frustrating . The use of the term `` python '' is given as an example . Machine indexing is noted as `` rotten '' and human indexing as `` capricious . '' The problem seems to be a lack of a theoretical foundation for the art of indexing . What librarians have learned over the last hundred years has yet to yield a consistent approach to what really works best in preparing index terms and in the ability of our customers to search the various indexes . An attempt is made to consider the elements of indexing , their pros and cons . The argument is made that machine indexing is far too prolific in its production of index terms . Neither librarians nor computer programmers have made much progress to improve Internet indexing . Human indexing has had the same problems for over fifty years
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