VI. CONCLUSIONS
Within grid-based information retrieval, grid technologies will offer new techniques and powerful information retrieval systems, whilst information retrieval will offer the grid new ways of handling and discovering information. In the future, people will all have their own information retrieval systems that are attuned to their ongoing information needs, preferences and interests. On the grid, it’s feasible to implement grid elements that have knowledge of the history of a user and her needs, and take these needs into account using merging and ranking algorithms already in place for combining sets from federated collections.