Are you drowning in a tide of digital data?

摘要

What has information overload done to us? asks the latest Microsoft Bing's ad taking on search engine giant Google. Leaving aside Bing's desperate bid to attract users, the tongue-in-cheek ad highlights an important internet distress - data superabundance. Actually, make that digital data superabundance. And that's as far as Microsoft goes - it has identified a problem. Surely Bing isn't the answer to information overload. Is it?