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§ Excerpt from news article.

Every Search is Important: An overview of the Public Record’s eco-system.

Information on the Public Record is archived in the Collective Memory over time. Articles and literature that are deemed unimportant are moved to the Collective Memory, and those deemed important will remain in the Public Record (until which point they are deemed unimportant). […] “Importance” is decided by multiple factors, including: unique searches for the information, amount of time spent in the information, and outside references to the information. Items in the Collective Memory can be found if a user searches for the item by its full name, but it will not appear in any general searches or references. If enough users search for the item by its full name, the item will be moved back into the Public Record. […] Because compilations contain excerpts from information in the Collective Memory that is related to a specific topic, compilers will often search through the Collective Memory when creating historical compilations or compilations that deal with historic events. Aside from that, most users don’t spend time in the Collective Memory. As the old saying goes, “If we didn’t learn from it then, what could we learn from it now?”

Paulmer Anian