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Article: Detecting duplicates: a searcher's dream come true.
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- July 1, 1990
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DIALOG'S announcement of a duplicate record detection feature at ONLINE'89 was met with enthusiasm, and rightfully so. Searchers have been requesting a way to identify duplicate records since long before the 1987 introduction of Onesearch, DIALOG'S multiple-file search capability. Once one begins to search multiple databases with overlapping sources, the need for a way to sort merged output, identify the duplicates, and retain the records one chooses becomes imperative. Duplicate detection is a longawaited, major system enhancement which allows searchers to do all of these things.
Duplicate detection was introduced in approximately 200 of DIALOG'S bibliographic ...