Online search costs: Koan to unknowns: as online access sweeps into everyday life, its push buries common sense in a pile of bits and bytes. In this article I use online and search--though technically quite different--as synonyms because both share a "cost challenge.".

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In 2000, the U.S. federal government began work on a program to allow citizens to search for information on thousands of Web servers operated by government agencies. Estimated first-year costs for the program were about $500,000. For 2005, the U.S. government's search-and-retrieval system followed the path of many other Federal projects. Costs were--according to one person familiar with the program--on track to break through the $20 million threshold.

To put this in context, in 2000, a car payment of $229 per month would rise to a breathtaking $9,560 and a house payment of ...

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