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How did the creation of online search engines change the world in terms of research? ===The world was once reliant on written books and encyclopedias for research use and business. It wasn't the most convenient nor efficient thing for students or educated adults needing to write research papers because they had to borrow a book or two from a library and have to drag it all the way home and sometimes come home to find out that the information isn't what you exactly want. On the internet, the people can't find a single site that they don't know about unless they put in something random in the URL and hope to find a real site. Times have changed mostly thanks to the creation of search engines such as Google, Yahoo! MSN, AOL, Ask, end etc. Many still do read books and encyclopedias for information, but has allowed people to get access to this information and find it off the internet quicker and a lot easier. However, some say it just creates more headaches and has caused more problems for research.===

 Life Before the "Finder" was created
====Luckily, the first search engine created was made before the world wide web had become so large with unlimited numbers of sites. People had to read newspapers, magazines, watch TV, or read multiple books to actually find information. Also, using the internet to find **new** sites that you want==== ======== ====to go to would almost be impossible. So research before search engines was very inconvenient. People had to rely mainly on books for the information that they needed. They had to either watch a lot of television to find information on a more present day type of information. If they wanted to find something, say the population in Seoul, a person would have to find a book on Seoul to find it because the television, it wouldn't tell people things and if it did, the chances of you being on that channel at the exact time were slim so many would miss information like live news and would wait for the next day newspaper or hear a most likely biased and maybe over exaggerated news from another person.====

====Research was almost impossible off the internet as stated before. To plug in a URL without assurance that there is a site that exists will most likely give you something that says Error. People had to rely on things like magazines, newspapers, and television for information. Searching for a book in a library would also be proved difficult because the search on a computer for books in the library use a search engine. So life was a lot more difficult to find information on almost anything.====



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People's Take
CONCLUSION ====Search engines are complex machines used for the good of people. The search engine may not be perfected, but had successfully done its goal by getting many people to use them and help people research and also found themselves to become the homepages for many people at the same time. The search engine may show some bad, useless sites without good information, but still has left many people satisfied with the answers they had gotten after using a search engine. Many search engines have led to people's ability to write multiple research papers and do homework quicker and more efficiently. Even if the search engines aren't perfect the companies will probably try to fix those problems and the researchers should also be double-checking if the information is legit or not. Like in the comic to the left, people are so used to using search engines that they've forgotten libraries. The convenience and speed of using search engines make it so much better and easier to research nowadays compared to the old times before this great innovation.====

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