Personal and professional information needs increase rapidly as the Information Age unfolds. When you stop to think about it, we can sift through data electronically in a large mass that is impossible to peruse in detail. There is just too much out there.
Many news articles report that Google's Web search database comprises approximately 50 billion Web pages and that this corpus changes at a rate of one billion Web documents daily. Although a lot of content vanishes after large archives close (such as Yahoo!'s closing of GeoCities), Internet-based data publication continues growing almost exponentially.
Criminal record searches have emerged as very profitable in the United States. Customers now spend more than $1 billion on background checks each year.
Many news articles report that Google's Web search database comprises approximately 50 billion Web pages and that this corpus changes at a rate of one billion Web documents daily. Although a lot of content vanishes after large archives close (such as Yahoo!'s closing of GeoCities), Internet-based data publication continues growing almost exponentially.
Criminal record searches have emerged as very profitable in the United States. Customers now spend more than $1 billion on background checks each year.