Chapter 39. Creating an Electronic Clipping Service for Web Pages
In the old days, we suffered from information overload from the flood of newspapers and magazines that we never had time to finish reading. Rather than having to wade through all of those publications ourselves, we could hire clipping services that would scan newspapers and magazines for articles on specific topics and then send those clippings to us for a fee. Such services filtered out news so we could focus only on the information we wanted.
Nowadays, information overload comes not only from newspapers and magazines, but from Internet sites as well. With the Internet, you can retrieve information almost in real time—including stock market data, sports scores, traffic updates, ...
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