
Originally Posted by
merlin2001
hopefully this just helps to highlight one of the critical problems with using the internet for any type of research - the information is only as good as the person who put it up there in the 1st place. the rubbish people will believe, simply because they read it on the wild wild web, never ceases to amaze me...
..from my personal experience (and with the exception of info tech as a subject), the net offers extremely limited levels of info. there is plenty of width, but no real depth - i tend to use the net only as a way to locate journal articles, books etc that I then order via amazon etc..