D&B Acquires AllBusiness.com

Today, any piece of information you want is just a couple of clicks away. You still use a browser to access it, but you probably either have your home page set to a search engine or you use a browser

Search has gotten better and better since those early days, and we've gotten more and more confident that we can find what we want online. As a result, a shift has taken place. Instead of passively waiting for companies to push information at us, we expect to be able to pull it in as needed. Search has become the interface to the Web.

Think of it as the just-in-time concept applied to the world's information.

In response to this instant availability, we have found ourselves in a new paradigm. We no longer need to struggle to keep abreast of breaking news and events in a wide variety of fields. We can rely on well-developed search skills and the ever-growing array of general and specialized search tools to find information we need when we need it.