Tuesday, October 28, 2008

It's No Secret

Today we learnt about the invisible web. Invisible Web... Sounds cool and mysterious right? I KNOW. These are actually web sources which are basically locked from the public, and having to access these source will mean paying a sum of money or having some official pass to log in.

I feel that though the invisible web may be very reliable, accessing it is a true hassle. Even though our TP Spark accounts are free, logging in and such is so time consuming as to going to Yahoo! to search for whatever we need.

The invisible web should only be accessed if one has the time or needs very reliable sources. As for researches of low importance, Yahoo! Search would do just fine.

I think that the only time I would actually use TP Spark will be for corporate infomation and other very offcial documents, maybe even for finding a company for my internship. But either than that, I think I'll stick to search engines, where the infomation flows quickly and freely.

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