One of biggest interests on the Internet today without any question is in the clamour to make money.
Whatever your reason for using the web, whether you are checking the football scores, reading about current affairs or chatting to your friends on Facebook, I would challenge you to navigate the web for an hour and not be confronted by an advert or a link that attempts to entice you to a site which will tell you how you make some extra cash.
Most visitors will of course pass them by. For those who have regular jobs and a fixed income the uncertainty of risking more on some or other online venture does not always appeal.
But amid the many scams and (to be kind) wildly exaggerated claims out there there are some ventures that do actually do what they say on the tin.
Many of such enterprises involve the now quite massive industry that is online sports betting. Whilst the old adage about the odds being on the side of the bookies is unquestionably true, it is also beyond dispute that there are those "in the know" - those with expert knowledge of their subject - who by their studious endeavour give themselves the edge over those whose approach to wagering resembles more an exercise in pinning a tail on the proverbial donkey.
The experts, the professional gamblers, are the specialists in their subject. That there are thousands of them around the web offering the benefit of their knowledge only serves to show how widespread and diverse the information is. Nobody can be a master all around the track.
But with so much different information having to be purchased from so many different sources, the inevitability always was that a new industry would emerge from within the world of touting and capping - that of the consensus reporter.
The consensus report is a collection of all the information gained from the respected individual experts in their own fields, brought together and presented as one package for one fee. By opening an account with a provider of good consensus reports the bettor is no longer dependent upon multiple accounts with large numbers of information providers that result in him having to surrender half his winnings to the tipsters.