Anita Dennis makes some very important points that everyone should re-read before they start any search.
The most important point: The Web is NOT a library. You can only find pages on the Web that someone else has decided to post. For instance, if I want to know the secret formula for Coca-Cola, I can only rely on those people who have posted them. But I know that I am not going to find them posted by the Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia. No way, no how.
The other point is that censorship is not always a bad thing. Think about asking a local librarian to give you information on breast feeding. Do you really think you would want her to give you pornographic books too?
The problem is that the Web may provide you with an article called "Why breast feeding is not enough". Unless you check the sources carefully, you may not realize the article is actually written by a supplier of infant formula. And is not "pure" research, but semi-commercialism.
Submitted by SandeeCohen99 on Thu, 07/05/2001 - 08:34.
I don't know how they do it either, but Google is easily the most direct route to finding what I need on the web. Thanks for the article.
It's not too late to have some control over the ads and e-mails that are blasting us. If e-mail advertisers were required to use some prefix that could be filtered out, that would be great. I currently filter all hotmail.com e-mails directly into the trash because they are almost always sex related.
VERY important points!
Anita Dennis makes some very important points that everyone should re-read before they start any search.
The most important point: The Web is NOT a library. You can only find pages on the Web that someone else has decided to post. For instance, if I want to know the secret formula for Coca-Cola, I can only rely on those people who have posted them. But I know that I am not going to find them posted by the Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia. No way, no how.
The other point is that censorship is not always a bad thing. Think about asking a local librarian to give you information on breast feeding. Do you really think you would want her to give you pornographic books too?
The problem is that the Web may provide you with an article called "Why breast feeding is not enough". Unless you check the sources carefully, you may not realize the article is actually written by a supplier of infant formula. And is not "pure" research, but semi-commercialism.
Great Google
I don't know how they do it either, but Google is easily the most direct route to finding what I need on the web. Thanks for the article.
It's not too late to have some control over the ads and e-mails that are blasting us. If e-mail advertisers were required to use some prefix that could be filtered out, that would be great. I currently filter all hotmail.com e-mails directly into the trash because they are almost always sex related.