Information retrieval in Internet: Google, a singular search engine

This paper is based in the analysis of the problems existing regarding the information retrieval in Internet from the point of view of the information professionals. The authors study the different tools: directories, search engines and meta search interfaces, as well as the difference between these ones and the portals, the invisible web problematic and the processing of natural language for information retrieval. After this they describe the singular proposal that Google carries out, which is based on the order that is given to the results of a search according to the amount of links each page has in the within the Network and the improvements that the Project Clever tries to introduce. The proposal is the following, to try that information professionals could optimize the elaboration of documents and work on its standardization.