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This happened ~10 years ago when search-engine results were too messy for the throngs that were looking for the Dancing Baby, so the business world invented portals. Then portals became useless because their curatorial layers were not scalable, but by then search engines had made improvements and the pendulum swung the other way.

It's a natural see-saw between specialization and generalizations (there's probably a one-word term for this in evolutionary biology). We see the same in thin-client/thick-client talk in client-server/webapp contexts.




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