Great quote. I looked it up in Lexis' CBS News Transcript file. Here's the wording and citation:
"My guess is, you know, about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing search. But we've--we can make slow and steady progress and maybe one day we'll get there." Sunday Morning: The Little Engine that Could; Google Grows from Garage to Giant (CBS television broadcast, March 28, 2004) (Charles Osgood reporting interview with Craig Silverstein, Google Director of Technology).
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PAUL D. CALLISTER, JD, MSLIS
Library Director & Associate Professor of Law
LEON E. BLOCH LAW LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF LAW
"Librarianship remains the last refuge of idealists." -- Bob Berring, Thinkable Thoughts, Law Librarians 3 (Sept. - Oct. 2003).
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Did you see Charles Osgood's report about Google yesterday on "Sunday Morning?"
Craig Silverstein, Google's director of technology, said "My guess is about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing search, but we can make slow and steady progress, and maybe one day we'll get there."
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