How To Find What You Need Online . . .

by Kevin A. Miller, FaithInTheWorkPlace.com

"The Internet is exploding with empty dazzle," explains Richard Saul Wurman, "sites that direct you to nonexistent links, send you down fruitless paths, and generally don't help you get where you want to go … Several studies have found that somewhere between 60 and 80 percent of people searching for information on the Web failed to find what they were looking for."^[1]

And we thought the Internet was supposed to be the mother of all information, the answer to all our information needs. Instead, it frustrates us most of the time—60 to 80 percent of the time. How ironic.

Still, by knowing how to properly search the web, we can flip that statistic upside down: we can find what we're looking for 60 to 80 percent of the time. Here are five tips for more successful web searches. By using these principles, you're highly likely to find what you're looking for online—in the first page of results. CLICK HERE for some outstanding help for beginning and advanced Internet and Online users.

Groups warn of Big Brother

Civil-liberty coalition promotes bill to regulate data chip technologies such as FasTrak devices.
By Steve Geissinger, Oakland Tribune
Government has so much information on Californians — mostly carried on cards in their wallets and purses — that it could swiftly become something like Big Brother from novelist George Orwell's "1984" in this post-Sept. 11 world. That's the way a diverse coalition of privacy and consumer groups see it. Government and technology firms disagree. And state lawmakers have jumped into the middle with landmark legislation on "radio-frequency identification," which experts said could mushroom like the Internet.