RJA #7a: Internet Research Tools

I fall into the category of the dreaded "google" researcher. I find a lot of useful information for what I want to know right then and there. Honestly, whenever I have a disagreement with for example, my father I google the subject so that I can prove him wrong. I do not even care if the information is accurate; I just want to prove him wrong at that point. What I like the most about google is that it gives you answers quick and sometimes you do not have to click on any hit. I do feel that sometimes the hits that I recieve on google are not accurate though. Sometimes during my mindless research I find a lot of contradicting hits. This gives me the impression that google may not be the most accurate place to recieve information. I also like and dislike that it is well known. I like that it is well known because many different people have recieved valuable and helpful information. I dislike it because so many people use that it seems to take the credibility out of it. http://www.google.com/

I also fall into the category of the "ask" researcher. I feel that ask is a lot like google, which makes me a comfortable user. I use ask whenever I do not like what I get from google. I mostly use ask when I am researching something for school, less often when I am doing personal research. I started using this when it was introduced to me at school, back then it was askjeeves.com. I think when I first started using it I liked it better and felt that it may have been more credible. It makes me feel better when I get some of the same hits on ask that I did on google because it makes the hits more credible to me for some reason. As with google I like that you can research things like "news," "images," etc. There really isn't anything that I do not like about ask. http://www.ask.com/?o=0&l=dir