Is Boolean Dead

• Redzee
• ChaCha
• Rollyo
• Evergreen
  • Laurentian bilingual project
  • British Columbia implementation
    
• Fish4info.org
• AquaBrowser
  • U of Chicago
  • Queen Library
• Factiva Search 2.0
• EBSCO Visual Search

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