What piece of information is hardest to find online?
Now that all of you are online, I have a question for you. What is hardest to find online? You can take this question many ways. You can think of types of information, types of files (e.g. text vs. video vs. music vs. photo) or anything else. Be creative. Let us create a mindstorm around this idea.
posted by Sandeep Krishnamurthy at 2:52 PM
7 Comments:
Well, finding a ppt on google scholar was the worst for me. It wasn't labeled and that is such a scam!
Also finding the post about cigarettes was hard, as it was under groups.
I am having issues with uploading the hunt. I have images.
I think the hardest piece of info to find was the post about cigarette info. Of course, one you figure out the location or 'tool' to use to search for it, it is easy! I guess thats true of many things.
Finding a specific page from a website, or link from a site was difficult for me. In general, what I find to be difficult when searching for information, is knowing what web sites are credible, and which are not.
The question before us today, which has bothered, bewildered, and bugged mankind since before the oceans drank Atlantis, goes something like thusly:
"What is hardest to find online?"
For my money, the toughest information to ferret out was the student ratings info. Of course, having gone through the process once, I could probably do it in my sleep now (after which I'd undoubtedly wake up screaming and immediately join Internetoverload Anonymous but that's neither here nor there).
The easiest (disturbingly easy, in fact) file to obtain was the photo of Alan Leong.
I think finding almost any type of information is easy to do, but it's often hard to find credible sites that cite their sources. Of course some places are reliable..i.e. hoovers, but often when I'm searching the web I have a hard time discerning how reliable information is when the page it's from is not a well known source.
I think that the hardest question on this assignment was #11...."Google Scholar".
Research in some particular areas like finance and stocks are straight forward. In some areas, like news, you might face some confusion especially if you are comparing two different types of news. I.e. question #19, I did found some articles that supported it and others that did not. So which one would I believe?
Overall, I had hard time finding some data but it was a good experience.
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