SearchDay - Battling Information Overload - 21 August 2002
In case you were in any doubt that we're inundated with data, consider the study conducted in 2000 by the School of Information Management and Systems of the University of California, Berkeley. "How Much Information" found that we produce 1.5 billion gigabytes of content a year. And a delightful article from Inc. magazine claims that people spend 150 hours a year looking for lost information and that 45% of people watch TV and use PCs simultaneously. No wonder we're overwhelmed!

Searchers can fight information overload in two ways -- at the source and with tools and techniques that cut down on the amount of information we wade through.
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0821-infoglut.html