The software’s main advance is a user-friendly search tool that can scan multiple data sources at once, something previous search tools couldn’t do. — WSJ. Sep.09

Rediscovery is what most youths and startups do. Their excuse is that they didn’t know. No problem. The google gens have a very short memory. The virtual horizon seems to lack any base or standard of measure so what used to take forty years to fall into the past now takes less than a decade before it can be reclaimed as your own.

In the midst of the search engine buildout there were no less than seven such tools allowing the searcher to build results from multiple engines, sub select against them, value results for emphasis, etc. The feature list went to several pages.

That a journalist missed it, no biggy. That those with ‘the vibe of the Shire’ missed it, means they have no vibe. Their Lord is dead.