The Search Engine Revolution

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

June 2011 EDITORIAL
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I remember fidgeting for endless hours on the Internet back in the mid-1990s. To be honest, that was the reason why my studies took so long to complete.The browser available then was a little application called NCSA Mosaic. There were very few pages to go to at that time, to be sure, and I was more interested in finding executable files to download. These were mainly simple but enticing games.With the number of sites increasing astronomically, the pressing need for...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.

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