Article on search engines

[Leo Robert Klein]

On 8/16/99 -0700, Charles P. Hobbs wrote:


>(The gist: Search engine operators are concentrating less on improving the 
>quality of searches and more on selling ads . . .)

The article also includes information on how search results are weighted by
fees paid to the search engine operators.  Imagine running an opac like
that?  Sounds like job insurance for librarians :-).

LEO

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