#otd2004 — Public Fediverse posts
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20 years ago today, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) went online.
We have grown continually ever since, indexing almost 400 million academic documents from nearly 11,500 sources these days.
The original announcement is still online (in German): https://www.inetbib.de/listenarchiv/msg24765.html
It started like this:
> Can libraries leave the academic Internet to commercial search engines such as Google, Yahoo and soon Microsoft?
> The answer from Bielefeld to this question is clear …