In this day and age you can find almost any information you require on the internet. Whether it be a recipe for red velvet cupcakes, the likelihood of rain on the weekend or the date the Americans signed the declaration of independence, there is a plethora of information only a mouse click or fingertip away.
As technology advances so does our requirement for knowledge and information. We want to know more and we want to know it yesterday. This is where internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask Jeeves, Webopedia and Mahalo come into play. These incredible sights help us find the information we want and they do it at lightning fast speed, often returning hundreds if not thousands of results in a matter of seconds. These results can be filtered with a simple quotation mark to help lessen the amount of results that come back and specify search results. Information on any topic you require is right there on the screen of you computer, tablet or smart phone.
It is after this super speed search that the problems begin. Yes, it is amazing to have 5,000 results come back for a search on “Conspiracy theories of The Shinning” however within this large amount of search results there will also be a large amount of very useless information that may not even be related to the actual search you were after. This is just the beginning of the real search. Say you were looking for the opening hours of a restaurant you had never been to before and you type the restaurant name into Google, you will get these back in your search, however, you will also get back Urbanspoon ratings of the restaurant, customer reviews, directions of how to get there and the restaurant food gallery. While all this is useful and may come in handy, it is this kind unnecessary information that makes it harder to find the exact answer you are after.
At some stage you may find yourself searching