Re: OT: Why the net Sucks: Stonehenge
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:47:56PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> Piles? Did you follow those links? There are three categories:
> fansites (not authoritative nor deep), travel brochures and tour
> packages (not interested and all), and interesting sites.
So to narrow it down, add some excludes to your search. See a term
that comes up a lot but is totally unrelated? Then add -keyword to
the end. That really starts whittling things down fast.
> So I posit that the interesting content in the library is much deeper
> and richer than what's on the internet. Plus, 27 hits, and *all* are
> spot on what I want, no fluff or crap.
I'm not arguing that, you just flat out say the net sucks, and the
evidence you provided demonstrates that perhaps you weren't using the
tools available to their full potential.
> Obviously, for tech stuff, the internet is authoritative. And there
> should be travel brochures and fan sites on the internet. But I would
> much rather "googling for Stonehenge" returned 27 hits comprising
> thousands of printed pages of meaty, well-established and respected
> literature, than the way the internet *currently* is.
Did you try Wikipedia? It is quite impressive and an excellent
starting place when trying to get info about meatspace.
> Right now all the travel brochures, fan sites, TV entertainment, and
> (meagre) scholarly research is all mixed together.
As it will likely always be. It just takes some time to get used to
sorting through the information overload.
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