6.033 Spring 2005: Preparation for Recitation 14

Read The Effects of September 11 on the Leading Search Engine by Richard Wiggins. Think about the answers to the following questions as you read the paper:

• Why are we reading this paper?
• Why does the web not scale as well as the traditional news sources?
• How could we design a scalable "emergency broadcast" system, or a distributed news feed, on the Internet?

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