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Search-engine trouble

I bet that if you’re reading this column, you’ve used Google in the last 24 hours – probably even in the last hour. Such is its prominence in the web search market that it has become a verb (to ‘Google’), just like Hoover or Sellotape.

This distinction has been achieved astonishingly quickly, as it’s only 26 years since two Californian PhD students founded Google on a shoestring. Now

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