More on “Google is not the answer”
August 22, 2006 – 11:38 pmI was thinking today, and what I really meant when I was whining about my brother giving me a hard time about my question is that Google is only as good as the sites it returns, and just because a site is at the top of the list doesn’t mean that it is worthwhile at all. (In fact, I usually skip down a few sites because the top ones usually suck… I haven’t seen that “I’m feeling lucky” button in a while… Maybe because it never works.)
When I want to learn more about a subject I know nothing about, I ask someone who I think knows more about it so that they can send me to a resource that won’t send me astray.
I think the next “class division” will be between people who are able to evaluate resources (through their own experience and their circle of friends’ experiences) and people who use Myspace.com.
