Creating a Collaborative, Web-Based Legal Information Archive

With online materials disappearing and changing almost daily, three libraries banded together to form a shared archive to preserve and provide access to digital legal and public policy information.

By Sarah J. Rhodes
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In 2008, a remarkable milestone was announced on the Google blog: the popular Internet search engine's crawlers had discovered and indexed 1 trillion unique and simultaneously active URLs. To put that figure into context, just 10 years earlier, Google had detected only--only!--26 million Web pages. That's an average of more than 99 billion URLs added to the Web per year, and more than 273 million pages added per day, since 1998.

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