Has online information become a commodity? Are we buying information by the liter? For decades, information professionals have been addressing the IAOTWFF (It's All On The Web For Free) phenomenon by emphasizing the unreliability and impermanence of information on the web. We would talk about the difficulty of conducting complex searches, the inability of search engines to index much of the content on the web, and the lack of historical depth: We portrayed the web as a mile wide and an inch deep.
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