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The 'Long Tail' of Technology Information

Joy Davidson | 06 November 2006

It's a prerequisite for any successful search service in technology, and technology-related subjects, to have a 'Long Tail' (a large inventory of relevant data). One such service is TechXtra, a freely available service developed at Heriot-Watt University [external], that aggregates content from a large number of different databases containing technology-related content.It's a prerequisite for any successful search service in technology, and technology-related subjects, to have a 'Long Tail' (a large inventory of relevant data). One such service is TechXtra, a freely available service developed at Heriot-Watt University [external], that aggregates content from a large number of different databases containing technology-related content.