subject: Intriguing Irrelevancies [print this page] The Internet links us all to a vast array of information-sometimes more than we expect, and to sources we didn't know even existed. When searching for online dictionary' I pulled up a variety of ordinary' dictionaries, and such sites as etymology dictionary
Like a lot of people I sometimes get diverted from what I'm doing by this kind of interesting link appearing in front of me, of which is entirely irrelevant to what I'm doing. In this case, I looked up a definition of the word desert' which I subsequently found, but in the end didn't end up using. My search had nothing to do with meteors called fireballs' which are much brighter than normal meteors because they are roughly the size of peas, some even the size of a grain of sand. I love discovering this kind of trivia. Thankfully, using the Internet makes researching much faster so I can spare a few minutes to connect with interesting web sites, and still learn what seeing a desert means in a dream, before getting back to connecting with the facts I need to know today. You know the next time I see a very bright meteor, I may remember it is a fireball', and why it is so bright.
Doing a keyword search on the general topic you're researching should pull up relevant database sites. (By the way, if you want to see an example of great search engine optimization strategies, do a search on "genealogy" and look at all the links to Ancestry.com on the websites you findthey're everywhere!)
As the cat-and-mouse game continues between search engine companies and SEO firms, the result promises to be ever more sophisticated, powerful, and accurate techniques for accessing valuable information over the Internet. As the continuing success of more and more new search engines suggests, we may have only scratched the surface of our Internet information technology capabilities.
