You bet it would. That's what the Opi project is all about. If we searched through documents that were related to IPM, rather than all the documents on the internet, our chances for success are far higher. Multiple methods of interacting with information are a Good Thing. At least, this was true when Altavista was only a keyword search engine, not a fully integrated portal.
Many hands make light work.
Opi is a distributed information system, and we mean this in more than one way. The architecture of the back-end system is distributed for scalability. But more importantly, the maintenance of the directory and search engine is distributed. Many maintainers, with many portfolios, all contribute to the combined engine. Because Opi runs on top of Userland Frontier , it mirrors Frontier's requirements.