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The World-Wide Web: quagmire or gold mine?

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Volume 39 , Issue 11 (November 1996) table of contents

Pages: 65 - 68

Year of Publication: 1996

ISSN:0001-0782

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Oren Etzioni

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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