You can quickly tailor this incoming information for a variety of needs. Computer based information is often among the most current data available, because it costs so little to update or make changes to it. Also, there is a great quantity of information available electronically that increases in size incredibly. As of the fall of 1999, estimates put the Internet at over 800 milion web pages. Since the average web page contains some seven links, the number of links between any two pages can represent the diameter of the Web.
Web pages are more than just a resource for their ideas.
These files stored on hard drives are also a source of names of experts, not just web page content. In the person layer of the pyramid you can seek the contact information for the name found in the web pages. Many problems exists within the information at this layer. Anyone can publish information on the Internet in seconds. That is, this information may never have been qualified by any other human as to the data's accuracy, currency, truthfulness or a host of related concerns.