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Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine - New York Times
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Google is the homework helper, navigator and yellow pages for half a billion users, able to find the most improbable needles in the world’s largest haystack of information in just the blink of an eye.
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It believes that its ability to decrease the number of times it leaves searchers disappointed is crucial to fending off ever fiercer attacks from the likes of Yahoo and Microsoft and preserving the tidy advertising gold mine that search represents.
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24 Jun 09
Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World - The New York Times
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That means working with commercial search engines like Google and Yahoo to make ever more digital-research materials searchable.
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"The nature of discovery is changing," said Joseph Janes, associate professor and chairman of library and information science at the University of Washington. "I think the digital revolution and the use of digital resources in general is really the beginning of a change in the way humanity thinks and presents itself."
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