Needle In A Haystack
According to Rethlefsen, “search engines have become a necessity for most users on the Internet”. You simply could not find what you need unless you coordinated with the owner of the website beforehand. If you did not know where to go it would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Currently, you can kind use a variety of search engines to help you find whatever you need. Some examples of search engines are Google or Yahoo. There are even search engines that combine other search engines such as Dog Pile.
According to Rethlefsen, “search engines have become a necessity for most users on the Internet”. You simply could not find what you need unless you coordinated with the owner of the website beforehand. If you did not know where to go it would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Currently, you can kind use a variety of search engines to help you find whatever you need. Some examples of search engines are Google or Yahoo. There are even search engines that combine other search engines such as Dog Pile.
As search more search engines emerged so did the need to become more competitive and simple search engine was not enough. Sites began to offer more advanced search options which could help a user narrow search results from 1000 down to 10 hits. Currently, language translation tools are being added to search engines. This allows you to search world wide internet sites and translate the text so you can understand it. This tool is not perfect, but from an intelligence gathering perspective, this is a very useful tool to have in your pocket. For example, you could go to http://www.google.de/ and type in Obama. Then click on each individual site and cut and paste the info into Google’s translator. The results would not be a perfect translation, but you could read what German newspapers are printing about our President and get an idea of what the German population thinks about us.
The World Wide Web is a wealth of knowledge. You have to learn how to use the tools of the Internet, such as search engines, in order to quickly find what you are looking for. If you can perfect the use of these tools, you might even find the proverbial needle that hides in this giant haystack we call the web.
Rethlefsen, L. M. (2007) Product Pipeline. NetConnect. EBSCOHOST. Retrieved March 28, 2009 from http://web.ebscohost.com.dml.regis.edu/ehost/pdf?vid=4&hid=114&sid=47ba4252-f40f-4de9-ba79-3253e4008ab7%40sessionmgr103
Rethlefsen, L. M. (2007) Product Pipeline. NetConnect. EBSCOHOST. Retrieved March 28, 2009 from http://web.ebscohost.com.dml.regis.edu/ehost/pdf?vid=4&hid=114&sid=47ba4252-f40f-4de9-ba79-3253e4008ab7%40sessionmgr103
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