Then we'll answer a few specific questions that we've received. We're depending on our readers to help us make this column useful. If you've got a question or a tip about finding information on the Internet or the Web - send it on to us . The Internet is a popular source of information. People use it to find answers to all sorts of questions.
Reliable information is one of the most important things in life.
In order to make decisions and understand our world, we need to have the most truthful information that we can find. The nature of the Internet and the Web make it relatively easy for all sorts of folks to produce and distribute information for the rest of the world to find. There are over one billion pages available on the World Wide Web. Some are tempted to compare the Web to a huge library, but on this point the two really aren't all that similar. Libraries select materials using some kind of collection criteria, while the Web, having no such criteria, accepts anything.