--- "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jan Coffey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 01:15 PM
> > To: Killer Bs Discussion
> > Subject: RE: Internet is dying - Prof. Lessig
> >
> >
> > In 1997 if you were to use web-crawler to find some bit of
> > information you desired it would take only a few minutes and
> > the search results would be very benificial.
> >
> > In 1999 Altavista would give you slightly more "noise" but
> > still first page results were usefull.
> >
> > In 2001 Google was decent, but the results you desired were
> > on the second or third page.
> >
> > Now in 2003 You may not get any results which are benificial
> > from any result on any search site. The vast majority of web
> > "destinations" are garbage. There is so much noise now that
> > real information might as well not be there. At one point you
> > could find into faster on the web. Now it is faster to look
> > in an encyclopida or in the lybrary. The internet as an
> > information resource is all but dead.
>
> I think your evaluation of the "State of the Web" is biased by the type of
> information you're seeking, and your method of ferretting it out.
That doesn't change the reality of my experience.
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