Sir Tim Berners-Lee, father of the World Wide Web, has expressed regret at the inclusion of the double slashes after http: in the URLs that we use in Internet addresses, as in http://www.w3.org or indeed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL

Well, to be honest, the World Wide Web turns 20 today, in idea form, not in actual implementation. It was 20 years ago in March 1989 that Tim Berners-Lee wrote the paper Information Management: A Proposal.

AOL has decided to discontinue development of Netscape web browser which brought surfing the Internet the to the masses, until its user base began to erode during the "browser wars" of the mid-1990s and resulted in the birth of Mozilla project.

A mashup of two different types of web search tools could make find the useful nuggets of information among all the grit on the Internet much easier.