If the sum total of your content was available from only a few
places, or you had the mother of all search engines as your home page,
this might be doable.
However, what about the person that wants to go to CNN's web site
one day. What's the difference between typing http://www.cnn.com (or
even www.cnn.com or less, depending on how much the browser lets you
leave off) versus searching (i.e. typing in CNN), finding the link,
and maybe making a bookmark? The first is probably at least 30 seconds
to a minute faster.
People want info in way too random access patterns to make any form
of web metaindex reasonable. Sure, their own sets of bookmarks will
let them eventually forget or ignore the underlying URLs, but until
you can click on the URL in a vt100 terminal reading email, or on a
billboard, or on your container of yoghurt, you're not going to make
URLs disappear. In other words, as long as people don't do all their
communication over the www, URLs will still be important.
Nathan Mates
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