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Search engines do not index sites equally, may not index new pages for months, and no engine indexes more than about 16% of the web. As the web becomes a major communications medium, the data on it must be made more accessible.
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Lawrence, S., Giles, C. Accessibility of information on the web. Nature 400, 107 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/21987
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