A paper from Fernando Pereira, Peter Norvig, Alon Halevy on how to deal with the vast amount of data from the Web.

From the Official Google Research Blog:

“Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and I argue that we should stop acting as if our goal is to author extremely elegant theories, and instead embrace complexity and make use of the best ally we have: the unreasonable effectiveness of data. See the full article here (IEEE Intelligent Systems, March/April 2009). “