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TECH TALK
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SPEED-READING
THE WEB WITH
VISUAL, REAL-TIME
SEARCH CAPABILITIES
By Kathleen Glandorf
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Top Kat
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Scarlet Kats, LLC
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Hamilton, OH
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Kathy@ScarletKats.com
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he world is experiencing exponential growth of digitally
accessible information. In 2013, there were 4.4 zettabytes (a
zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes) of digital information. To put
this in perspective, if the digital universe were represented by a
stack of tablet computers, it would have already reached two-thirds of the
way to the Moon in 2013! And by 2020, that information is estimated to
multiply tenfold to 44 zettabytes, according to the analyst firm IDC.
