February 20, 2009
In Search of a Better Search Engine
As college sites grow to millions of documents and balloon in complexity, officials turn to Google and other vendors for help
Early this decade, the number of Web-based documents stored on the servers of the University of Florida hovered near 300,000. By the end of 2006, that number had leapt to four million. Now, the university hosts close to eight million Web documents.
"We have approximately 20,000 employees, all producing stuff, and an increasing amount of that goes on the
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