Ann Blair et al., "Information: A Historical Companion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Google Search - What Is It All About?
In 19 97, a year before they delivered that paper, you published a book called the footnote of curious history. And could you please explain for us how this convention from the humanities helped provide a logic that inspired google searching? Ye, that's, of course. Had i but known, i could have asked for royalties. So i think the nineties was a, looked at in retrospect, as we can was a real transitional period a in terms of research. For example, it was ttha. Once the world wide web came alive, it became possible to find things out in a way that had never been possible before.
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