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How will Google's innovation continue beyond its 20th year?

  • Written by Gary Marchionini, Professor of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The past and present of Google – what's next?Sirirat/Shutterstock.com

As millions of people came online in the late 1990s they needed help figuring out what each webpage was about, and how to find what they were looking for. Web indexes and search engines sprang up. When Google was founded in September 1998, it had to compete with the informa...

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