In July 2011, Eric Garland, a strategic trends researcher, explained the future of search. He observed, "The future of search is not in links, it is in relevance". I jotted down his observation in my Quotes_to_Note file. The 3-year-old statement encapsulates the shift that has fractured information retrieval. The upheaval has affected acres of real estate along the information superhighway.
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