Information Research Weblog

Microdoc News has an interesting item on Google and the competition that is building, including MSN, Yahoo! - still using Google, athough it has bought Inktomi, and Overture (which bought Alta Vista) being the key contenders.

However, more interesting than this business stuff is the account of research into a typology of information seekers which suggests that Google wins because it caters to all five types.

The researcher is Dr Glenn Livingstone (whose Web site tells us he can juggle five balls - for what that's worth) and the five types he has discovered are:

• discoverer
• writer
• reader
• viewer
• technodoer

Check it out to find out which you are!