Online information.

As I mentioned earlier I think anyone can find anything online. I use the internet as a resource for all of my classes. The problem is first finding the information and second making sure it is valid.
As far as finding the information, Boolean search words and techniques are really helpful with most search engines. The way I use them is I get a notebook and write down all of the possible ways I can describe what I am looking for. Then I look for conflicts. for example "rock" I do a lot of lapidary work so finding cool rocks is important to my work. But typing "rock" into a search fields is more likely to land results about AC-DC than any type of stone, but naming the rock, for instance, Variscite, will bring up a very limited number of responses. The other disadvantage is varacity or validity. The internet is like a living library that has filed all the books and newspapers alphabetically but has not separated the fiction from the nonfiction section. Oftentimes information found on the internet is about as valid as a information from a psychic found listed in the back of the National Enquirer. It is just not very good. The way I get around this is that I use the internet to find information that I can verify through other sources. If it is a business, I contact them and do my due diligence to find out how reputable they are. By doing this I was able to buy a machine that would have cost me 40,000 dollars from an American company, from a company in India for 8,000 dollars. While writing my diet book I would come across articles that quoted research. I did not use the article in my diet book, but I did look up the research source and use that information. This is information I would have never found without the help of the article. I would say that the best way to limit what might be questionable information is to use the internet as a secondary source of information that can lead to solid, reliable, useable information.