Statistics have it that there are well over one billion – 1,000,000,000 websites on the Net and the total bytes that Internet holds is estimated around 1,200 petabytes that is 1.2 million terabytes (one terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes)
These bytes include what you and I have uploaded on the Net. Feels great to be a part of the milieu.
Different surfers have different ways to search for information. Some will just type a phrase in the space provided. Some will type the name of the site that they expect to extract information from. Whatever be the mode the results will run into millions.
Who to trust and who to believe is the dilemma a searcher is always faced with.
Internet is a free platform where anybody and everybody can create websites or write for sites that allow them to write. Sadly site owners are not experts to know whether the information that is in those posts is right as there could be countless subjects on which users normally write. The site owners will only see if anything is plagiarised, the article has the right number of words and the writer has not broken any rule. There is no check on the veracity of what is written. For example, someone will recommend that 8 glasses of water is good and someone else will warn that too much water is too bad.Both these articles will be approved by the site owner.
Moral of the story is looking for information on such sites would be risky. When someone writes on health on such sites it would be folly to take their word as law and follow what they have written in there.
The best bet therefore for a Net searcher is never to rely on pages that are written for which the writer receives payment where the site owner has no direct interest in the contents of the articles. . A question could be posed on the web itself asking for reliable sites on subjects of interest and based on that further search could be conducted.
Google again has no interest per se in the contents but will go by keywords that are relevant.
In the final analysis it is indeed a hit and miss method.
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It's true that the Internet is the best invention since the napkin and one of the best educational resources ever invented by whoever invented it (read the tech history but forgot!). However, as you say it is overloaded with tons of misinformation and even erroneous information and one does have to sift through a lot of it to extract the gold. But I for one am very happy to have an online library right at my finger tips.
Very interesting. Is this online library that you are referring to created by any institution? How does one access it?