The death of the power searcher. (evolving technology forcing traditional commercial search services to alter their approach in serving their customers)(Editorial)

Searcher,  March, 1995  by Quint, Barbara

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"We have come not to praise Caesar, but to bury him."

Professional searchers make a living based on their ability to deliver needed information to clients at a cost below what the client could or would do for themselves. Often they find information the client has no idea how to find. Or they find information substantially better--e.g., more complete or more authoritative; or substantially faster--e.g., turning days of library manual research into hours of electronic retrieval; or substantially cheaper--e.g., gathering material from published sources for which clients ...

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