Organizing Information

The meaning of the word "organize" when used in the context of "organizing information."

The purpose of the act is "to get what you need as soon as you need it.

Full-text searches of electronic information greatly aided that goal.

The "organizing" of using full-text search doesn't look like organizing to someone who sees organizing as categorizing and putting things in boxes.

From such a person's point of view, "I just put everything in one place in a jumble without organizing it.

On the other hand, those who are used to "organizing" using search perceive those who categorize as "playing inefficient organizers by dragging out physical images.

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