Search for information

One would agree that we live in the century of information. He who owns information owns everything, so to speak. Due to the pervasive spread of the Internet, the access to information is becoming even easier. Google revolutionized the art of information retrieval.  Now ordinary users can read thousands of books and edit documents online, [...]

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Google search

I have read recently a remarkable book by John Battele: The Search. The book contains very concise and easy-to-understand explanation of the Internet search technology and explains how Google and its rivals are indeed shaping the network society. The book describes briefly some technical issues of the search per se and provides some future perspectives [...]

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