The Information Explosion
Meets Shakespeare

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A student does a web search for "Hamlet and Shakespeare":

Yahoo returns 21 major sites, each containing many subpages and links.

Alta Vista returns 39,291 pages

 

What is a literature search when there's too much to read?

Which of these are serious scholarship?

Which of these are speculation or even junk?

 

Life in the Information Age February 24, 2000