A slender boy of 14 moves slowly across the room. His full head
of long red hair bounces as he walks. His mind is racing. He
sits at the oak table near the window of the vast room. On the
table is a box; a box that glows with flashing lights and a
screen. Printed on the screen is less than 100 words. At the top
of the box is a single word printed in a playful font. Under the
word is another box ready for the boy’s command. The boy smiles
as he realizes that before him is all the knowledge of the
world. Sitting before him is almost every idea and thought that
mankind has ever put onto paper, stone, papyrus, film, video, or
in bytes. He is about to use Google. We all have amazing access
to amazing knowledge. The trick is to find what you want in the
billions of pages indexed and cataloged by Google. Forget the
haystack. The search for information is like looking for a
particular needle in four states, given the available data.
Finding stuff on the web is a skill that we can all gain from. I
pick on Google here