What makes a good search engine? These 4 models can help you use search in the age of AI

By Simon Coghlan, Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
Damiano Spina, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University
Falk Scholer, Professor of Information Access and Retrieval, RMIT University
Hui Chia, PhD Candidate in Law, The University of Melbourne

To make sure search engines serve us well, it’s helpful to imagine these tools having different roles – whether it’s a “librarian” or a “teacher”.

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