Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Blog #2 The Hyperlinks

People today normally use the Internet everyday. We use search engines and try to search for information, we use it to download music, play games, and many other things. When searching for information, we often get information that is not what we want. There is so much information on the Internet that it is hard for a computer to find something specific without looking through multiple websites to find what you are looking for. When a computer searches for information it is like person searching for a book at the library. We make assumptions on where to look, and what to look for. The computer does a very similar process except for humans can make assumptions because we have common sense and computers can not. This is why we can only achieve 30% on searching the Internet. The Internet is too big for the computer to find exact or specific information. We have to put a non-specific idea for the computer to search, and then we have to look through the information for the specific information we need.
I agree with the article, because computers never seem to answer the question you are searching for. Computers are not humans, and they cannot assume what we are exactly looking for. The Internet is something that has grown merely for its entertainment purposes, but it is nice and convenient when you do find what you are looking for.

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