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One cannot begin to talk about an idea, without first presenting its history. The concepts of memory extension and hypertext date back to the mid 1940's, when Vannaver Bush's, "As We May Think" was published in The Atlantic Monthly. He urged scientists to work together to help build a body of knowledge for all mankind: "The human mind does not work this way. It operates by association... Man cannot hope fully to duplicate this mental process artificially, but he certainly ought to be able to learn from it. In minor ways he may even improve, for his records have relative permanency." Bush's work encouraged scientists to further explore the idea of indexing knowledge and search through the database of knowledge. Their research led us to what we know now about the WWW (world wide web) and search engines. Bush's concept of the mind operating by association, an old idea found in David Hume, leads search engines to implement a measure of associat...
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