THE SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES AND THE INTERNET FUTURE

In this work it is presented a general vision of the Inernet search systems, mainly of the usually called 'Metasearchers', which use simultaneously different comercial search engines to take advantage of its power of indexation and coverage and the possibility of expanding the initial user queries to obtain the most relevant results for his search intentions. Besides, it is analyzed the role that Soft-computning's technologies (tolerant to imprecision and uncertainty formalisms and models, as for example Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms or Artificial Neural Networks) can play in the improvement of the mentioned search systems, with the aim of obtaining search systems with the capability of answering to questions of the users (Question-answering Systems).