Where, What, Why: Mr. Q on the Web

John Naisbitt, in his 1982 book "Megatrends," postulated an important characteristic of our information and knowledge society: "We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge." Today, in the age of the Information and Knowledge society, we are faced with this problem every single day, because Web searches and information selection are highly time-consuming activities. Internet search engines attempt to employ intelligent search algorithms in order to optimize their search results. Nevertheless, the question remains how "qualitative knowledge" can be selected, ie, knowledge needed for supporting decisions in medicine and dentistry. Semantic search engines are one current approach to this problem. For this reason, a project entitled "Mr. Q, your personal Web Assistant" has been initiated and will be introduced in this paper. Keywords: knowledge society, information deluge, qualitative knowledge, Internet search engines, semantic search, Mr. Q, dynamic knowledge space, visualization of knowledge