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"The internet is crap for finding stuff"

Of any use

Looking for facts on my Geography essay:

" Is water the oil of the 21st century "

For every page with something half useful you get about 50 consisting of crap or that don't work anymore.

What's needed is a simple option to either choose to look only for websites selling things, or only for websites not selling things.

I'm pretty sure many of the search engines out there are advanced enough to be able to categorise websites into these two classes, and vastly improve searches. I've no idea why they haven't tried it yet though...

I know what you mean. When I ever try and find something there is always adverts attacking me with their capitalism, when there's me just trying to learn. Ah well, the internet will be the death of us all.

There was a time that it was actually useful.

The internet wa sreally about a sharing of information.

Then someone invented the terms:

e-tailers
e-commerce

and every one started to try to sell you things. The useful pages got a little bit lost, but a few companies made a bit of money for a while, and some geeks got rich, but now half of the stores aren't as cheap as they used to be, and it's even harder to find information...

Is that a metaphorical question?

If not it's quite easy.

Ans)

"No.
Water is not oil. It is located in different places, used for different things, has a fundamentally different chemical composition and is generally obtained in a different way.

Water is not 'date dependant', and though oil could be said to be date dependant, it never becomes oil, or vice-versa. Even in the 21st century. What is more, there is no significant statistical evidence which might even suggest that water and oil are indeed the same thing, or have reversed roles, in the 21st century.

To further verify my theories, I put oil in the radiator of my dad's car, and water in the oil tank. The car now fails to run. I have enclosed photocopies of the invoice from the garage as evidence to support my claims.

Sheepy."


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Of any use

Looking for facts on my Geography essay:

" Is water the oil of the 21st century "

For every page with something half useful you get about 50 consisting of crap or that don't work anymore.