May 2007
People-Powered Search
For the legions of Internet users contributing to new "human-assisted search" sites, no job is too small.
By Wade Roush
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| Credit: Marc Rosenthal |
On January 28, a day of calm seas off the California coast, computer scientist Jim Gray left San Francisco on his 40-foot yacht Tenacious and made for the Farallon Islands, 43 kilometers beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, where he planned to scatter the ashes of his recently deceased mother. He failed to return that evening.
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