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From an AP article discussing the future
on internet search engines:
"At Microsoft Corp., researchers are exploring ways to
return specific facts rather than entire documents. A search for
"Marilyn Monroe's birthday" would return an answer, "June
1, 1926," instead of sites on her famous "Happy Birthday,
Mr. President" performance.
"We still have this library metaphor of `Let me give you back
a bunch of books that might help you,' ... rather than `Let
me go through the books for you and figure out what you're looking
for," said Eric Brill, a senior researcher with
Microsoft's AskMSR project. "
--Yahoo News (AP) - 3/26/04 - "Upstart Competitors Try
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Contrast this with a quote from Noam Chomsky:
"The point is that you have to work. That's why the
propaganda system is so successful. Very few people are
going to have the time or the energy or the commitment to carry
out the constant battle that's required to get outside of McNeal
Lehrer or Dan Rather or somebody like that. The easy thing to do,
you know, you come home from work, you're tired you had a busy day,
you're not going to spend the day carrying out a research project.
So you turn on the tube and say "yeah, it's probably right",
then you look at the headlines in the paper then you watch the sports
or something. That's basically the way the sytem of indoctrination
works. Sure the other stuff is there, but you're going to have to
work to find it."
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