"The recent disruption marked the final blowup in a year-long game of chicken played by Sprint Nextel and Cogent and brought to light an uncomfortable reality: The Internet is held together by collection of secret contracts struck between private companies, free from government oversight and regulation."

"Many approaches for retrieving documents from electronic databases depend on the literal matching of words in a user's query to the keywords defining database objects. Since there is great diversity in the words people use to describe the same object, literal- or lexical- based methods can often retrieve irrelevant documents. Another approach to exploit the implicit higher-order structure in the association of terms with text objects is to compute the singular value decomposition (SVD) of large sparse term by text-object matrices. Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is a conceptual indexing method which employs the SVD to represent terms and objects by dominant singular subspaces so that user queries can be matched in a lower-rank semantic space. This paper considers a third, intermediate approach to facilitate the immediate detection of document (or term) clusters…."