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“I don’t use bookmarks, I use Google,” says a colleague. And he’s not alone:
why bother with huge bookmark files that become so bloated that accessing them
can make your computer unstable? The hyper-efficient search system developed at
Stanford University by Google’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, has become
so adept at hitting the right pages in an instant that bookmarks (or
“favourites” if you’re an Explorer user) become an option rather than a
necessity. Find out how it works at www.google.com/technology/index.html

The sheer power of today’s search engines calls into question the need for
a magazine column that…

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