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Article: Bing or bust: can Microsoft cure 'Search Overload Syndrome'? It was, in fact, librarians who introduced the world to the concept of categorized search. It was librarians who carried the torch, stubbornly insisting on cataloging things in an age of metatags and keyword searching.
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- Computers in Libraries
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- November 1, 2009
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The internet is a big place, and it is quickly growing. Last year, Google systems hit a milestone when they discovered their 1 trillionth unique URL--a staggering number when you stop to consider that only 10 years earlier, Google was a Silicon Valley startup with a 25-million-page index that, at the time, seemed impossibly large. And as the internet grows, so does our reliance on commercial search engines. According to comScore, the five major U.S. search engines performed a total of 137 billion internet searches in 2008--a 16% increase from the previous year. One could reasonably assume that this increase in internet search activity was driven by new users. In fact, it ...
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