If you're looking for a new pair of shoes that won't squeeze your wide feet, a searchengine can help, but a post on your Facebook wall will result in faster responses from your most trusted critics--your friends.
Connecting more people to the Web world-wide creates more potential users of its Web-search engine and other services such as YouTube and its Google Play media and app store.
He also wrote about software agents that go out into the network and come back with any information you want. (Sound a little like a searchengine?) Bear and Benford also created fictional global networks long before the World Wide Web was a gleam in the eye of its creator Tim Berners Lee.