When you use YAHOO SEARCH in search of an answer to a question, the answers often point you here to Yahoo Answers. I'm not too thrilled about that. That tends to imply that what you find here is the "truth" and people will tend to settle for the answers they find here.
I have often found that much of what you find on the internet simply is not true...anyone can write whatever they want on the internet and lots of gullible people looking for answers will believe it. It's scary especially since many people research medicines or treatments for illnesses.
Do you agree that the information you find online can often times be misleading?
2006-09-24 14:08:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
I guess that's perhaps what bothers me is that these large "corporations" have a responsibility to the public but they are too often self-serving and therefore misleading.
I agree if you want to search you should use other search engines, but I've found major errors (an example is a speech Nelson Madela supposedly made at his inaugural address...he never made it at all it was a female authors...yet it got passed around as his)...so it doesn't take much to start false rumours.
2006-09-24 14:20:42 · update #1
Of course, there is a lot of garbage on the Internet. One of the first things you need to know how to do, is to learn to evaluate websites. One of the things you need to do is to look for some indication of who the person is who is supplying the information, the credentials of said person, and whether or not the information can be verified. Please check the links below. All of them give you info on how to evaluate a website, but, of course, some are better than others.
Just like you have to do some evaluation of print materials, you have to evaluate anything on the web. Anyone can make a web page and say whatever they want. This does not mean it's accurate. You have to remember that biased information also makes its way into print.
As for my own credentials (grin), I am a school librarian with library certification, as well as an MS in Educational Technology.
2006-09-24 14:28:58 · answer #1 · answered by scheshirecat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course there is going to be some (ok, alot) of false, wrong, and/or misleading information found on the internet. However, the same way a child learns to do research in a library is the same way we have to learn to weed out the bad results and wrong information.
I use the site www.wikipedia.org. All of the articles written on that site are created by other people. This means that they may not be 100% true and completely accurate, but that small percent of time they aren't does not make a difference when you realize how much time and effort using the site to begin with has saved you.
Almost 80% of non-math related questions on these pages could be answered if the asker spent a few minutes at wikipedia.org. It's really a great site because the range of articles is incredible. It's perfect for quick-researching and finding information fast and for finding information organized extremely nice/clear.
One thing that we have to learn is that if you feel the article you are reading isn't true, to just go down to the sources linked and get a second opinion!
The fact that yahoo answers comes up a lot in search results is only because Yahoo runs the service. If you did your searches on Google, you would not be linked to almost any Yahoo Answers results. Yahoo Answers is best for people who need quick help or personal opinion questions answered. I agree it is not good for reference because users don't have to stand by what they say, but when you need to decide what color shirt to wear to the dance on Thursday, it's perfect.
2006-09-24 21:10:17 · answer #2 · answered by ĵōē¥ → đ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree and do not believe something I read on the net unless it is from a valid source. When I was in college and had to write science papers I used valid science sites, other than that I am very leary about what I read in some of these answers on here.
2006-09-24 21:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by pickle_980 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agree
2006-09-24 21:13:50 · answer #4 · answered by PD GAL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The information I find on the internet is always misleading. As long as I never take anything as the truth until I can prove it to be, no harm no foul.
2006-09-24 21:11:14 · answer #5 · answered by Wren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I agree that the information you find online can often times be misleading.
2006-09-24 21:21:03 · answer #6 · answered by Hubert B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep! There should be a required lesson for students teaching them how to screen the validity of the information they get on-line. Even Wikipedia is often wrong.
2006-09-24 21:13:21 · answer #7 · answered by just browsin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are three answers coming from my peanut brains..NO, NO, NO...most and almost every search is carefully researched, edit and processed before submitting. trust me you will know the craps, rubbish and trash from what you might learn already.
2006-09-24 21:28:37 · answer #8 · answered by Jermaine g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I agree.
2006-09-24 21:10:48 · answer #9 · answered by Quiet Amusement 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i do think that some times it can be misleading in many ways.
2006-09-24 21:11:22 · answer #10 · answered by georgia s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋