“The economy of the search engines, on which Wall Street has staked billions of dollars, is sort of based on this obsessive behavior.”
Marita Sturken, a USC professor and student of popular culture, on how surfers browsing for Pamela Anderson Lee are the hidden engine of the Net economy, ZDNN/WSJ Interactive, 13 April 1999
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