Searching
The Internet -- For Quality Results
When we're
looking for information, the last
thing needed is to feel as
though you were rummaging around in some
child's thrown-out,
to-be-discarded, second hand, damaged,
unwanted and
out-of-date
borrowed books...or worse yet, genuine
rubbish - oh, yes...
the rubbish.
Information is important, and it
shouldn't have to become a
major chore and
a down-right headache to locate what you
need and want to
put your fingers
on.
In July of 2008, at one search
engine alone - (and
there are hundreds of
search engines) - Google, the
engineers were
estimating they had
cataloged a trillion of unique web addresses.
That
was 2008, and the
numbers are growing quickly.
To add a bit of mind-boggling
perspective on just some
of the vast amounts
of information being collected
and stored, the United
States Library of
Congress, on their official
blog, is estimating
cataloging numbers reaching
the thousands
of terabytes of information for just
themselves alone --
numbers known as petabytes.
Think of a home pc disk
drive capacity and
just keep adding many, many,
many more triple zeroes.
So, regardless of the subject
matter, the goods, the
products, or the
services - finding
the right stuff, the right
thing, the valued information...and
the better quality - and being
able to find, locate,
and gain access to them
sooner rather than later - and
with the least amount
of headaches and
frustrations, is getting to
become more and more time
consuming and
overwhelming, as well as
leaving behind in its wake a
feeling of resigned
and long-lasting and
irritating weariness.
“…
the abundance of information will be such that either you have reached
such a level of maturity that you are able to be your own filter, or
you will desperately
need a filter…some professional filter.”
Umberto Eco
(From
Umberto Eco, “A Conversation on Information” An interview
with Umberto
Eco by Patrick Coppock, February, 1995.)
University of Colorado at Denver
(http://carbon.ucdenver.edu/~mryder/itc/eco/eco.html)
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco
NetworkResearch.org
NetworkResearch.org
was an idea of necessity. Folks would
come to us for help, and after years of
seeing the search for information a person might be
looking for
on the internet turn slowly into a massive stumbling block full of
hard-to-find
data and headache-filled mazes, the mandatory information sifting and
discarding
of useless junk became just too much, so new search strategies began to
be
used.
After that, things began falling into place to create a ready and
useful set of
resources to meet the various needs of different people with their
various
interests.
Having watched the internet turn into the "Web", where one no longer
needed to know even the fundamentals of their computer thanks to clever
little
icons and the windows environment, let alone how the internet really
worked and
what the "web" had evolved into, it became obvious that the average
user was in need of some help, and we are continually asked what seems
like
basic questions, on topics as varied as there are interests.
So, this web
site is going to address some of them, and begin to open up doors to
solving
some of those problems and then going further to discover new interests.
NetworkResearch.org is a very loosely-knit association of different
acquaintances
within various backgrounds and professions, and covering a huge swath
of
everyday life and everyday folks.
These pages will begin to touch on some of those areas, and delve even
further
into some of the others with ever broadening scope.
A very, very brief mind-mapping session (see photo above and at right)
of about
20 minutes or so, quickly began to grow exponentially due to the wide
range of
different interests.
It was stopped there where it was, and a decision was made to just
begin by
focusing on some of the more immediate first steps. The
different topics
of interest will grow as we are able to pursue them more in depth.
Some of the subjects that were brought up at that first initial session
so long
ago are:
Note: Personal
needs and issues were naturally at the forefront - such as education
and
health, but these results are in no particular order, they are just a
brief
"snapshot" of that initial mind-mapping session(for more
about mind-maps and their enormous popularity and usefulness, click
here.)
A. LIFE ISSUES
1. HEALTH...
...EXPECTATIONS...MENTAL HEALTH...PHYSICAL HEALTH
2.
INNER GROWTH...
...INTELLIGENCE...INTERESTS...PROSPERITY
B. EDUCATION
1. TUTORIALS...
...GROUP
LEARNING...RESOURCES...INFORMATION
2.
RESEARCH...
...STATISTICS...SEARCH ENGINES...LIBRARIES
C. WORK
1. BUSINESS TO
BUSINESS
2. CONSUMER
3. PARTNERSHIPS
D. COMMUNITY
1. GROWTH...
...COMMUNAL...INDIVIDUAL
2.
COHESION...
...PARTICIPATION
E. SOCIAL
1. FAMILY
2. PEERS
F. GLOBAL
1. SOCIAL
2. POLITICS
3. SPIRITUAL
So, that is about where we are at for now -
spending far, far more time doing inquisitive fact-finding
missions than we are on building web pages and web sites out of the odd
bits-and-bytes of not-so-stray electrons floating around our 'new and improved'
universe these days. But, we are coming as quickly as we can,
and you will see more and more additions to this site and these pages
on a regular and quickly improving basis.
Please feel free to lend a hand if you feel so inclined, and we welcome
comments and suggestions.
If you are inquisitive, have questions or interests in certain topics,
and/or if you like to write, please let us know and drop us a line.
Simply click on the 'contact us' link at the bottom of the
page.
Thanks,
mr.b
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