TEK supports a different model of Web access. Think of inter-library loan. You need a book. Your library doesn't have it, and you can't afford to buy it. But you can get it on loan. You are willing to `pay' to access the infomation in that book with time: you will wait a week to see the book.

With the TEK search engine, the user submits a query which is emailed to Boston. The TEK Server, which is connected to the Internet backbone, searches the Web, locates some pages, selects which pages to send back, compresses them, and returns them back to the user. Because the search results are returned asynchronously, by email, the connectivity charges are lower. Post-processing the search results and selecting which pages to send back reduces the amount of information and addresses the bandwidth question.

By the way, TEK stands for "Time Equals Knowledge".

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