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Government
Information
and the Economy
and the Economy
•Taxpayer-funded government information – from
corporate data from the Securities and Exchange Commission to patent data from the Patent and Trademark office
- is contributing to the spectacular growth in the information retrieval and
database industries:
–From a $4 billion industry in 1994 to
an expected $10 billion industry in 2002.
–From 900 database vendors in 1991 to
2400 vendors in 1999.