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To Spare You Search Strain. That's all. Our whole site is dedicated to that. You see, there are people trying to "sell" you "quotations" that are really nothing more than concordances (a concordance being - according to the Webster New World Dictionary - an alphabetical list of the chief words used in a book or by a writer, with the passages in which they occur identified or cited). It's not just that that's extremely easy to do - you just get a corpus of texts, such as the Gutenberg Project ASCII classics, or similar texts available for free at many Universities' websites, get a perl programmer to stick some search code onto them and voilą, you got yourself a "database of quotations" - it's primarily the disgustingly low quality of thus "fished" search results that makes them fishy. In fact, as you may well know if you've ever performed a search query on one of such text databases, it's not substantially better than simply throwing the same search term at the, say, Google search engine: you simply get every occurence of your search term that is contained in any text under the sun. A little too random to be called a quotation, don't you think? To paraphrase Theodore Sturgeon, the question is not why 90% of everything in the world is crap - the question is why in the world should you go through all that crap just to find a nice quotation?
The problem, as we at QT see it, is pruning, or selection, or whatever you like to call it. And that's where A Quotations Treasury differs substantially: it's based on pruning, on thoughtful and careful selection. In fact, every single quotation on our site has been obtained by the old, terribly time-consuming and painstaking method that, to this day, simply can't be performed by computers - and that is, by reading, taking notes, re-reading, pruning, selecting, writing down and re-reading again. As you can imagine, sometimes, as much as several hundreds of pages have to be carefully perused and read through to obtain no more than a single good quotation! That's why our editors (who do all this work) are so proud of the site they are contributing to.
These are some of the reasons why we firmly believe that the Internet users are getting fed up with searching. Don't get us wrong, we don't think searching will ever die out. It's just that searching as we know it should be employed up to the point where it yields results. After that, the user will choose other ways and methods of finding information. We are proud to be one of such possible methods, but there are more. Ever heard of a "vortal", for instance? They are a possible answer to the incompleteness of directories and the comparatively high irrelevance of search engine listings. As compared to a directory, a vortal will return far more results; as compared to a search engine, it will return no off-topic results (which are the main flaw of the search engines, metasearchers included). Surfers looking for comprehensive, all-encompassing information on a given topic are increasingly turning to vortals for sensible results. Or, for that matter, are you acquainted with the countless ways and methods of searching that are actually available on the Internet besides the relatively simple searches we perform every day through the various Search Engines? The search as we know it is taking on new, hitherto unknown forms and evolving rapidly. For more info on that, you can visit the ultimate (in our opinion) search site: just look it up on our Links Page!
Hopefully not. Only joking; as you may have noticed, the majority of our quotes are either too old or too short, or both, to involve you in a copyright lawsuit. We would appreciate, however, if you specified us as your source or quite simply linked to http://aquotationstreasury.cjb.net.
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