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| | Filing, filtering, and the first few found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The consequence is that the first few records displayed can be expected to be the basis upon which the user will decide whether to display more, modify the search, attempt a new, different search, or abandon searching (Bates 1984, Berger 1992). |
 | | Yet these are the first few found by a simple, typical search in an online catalog of standard design. |
 | | Again, with this second pair of lists, the difference between the first, conventional ordering and the second, filtered ordering of the same results of the same subject search is remarkable. |
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