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The nature of research and discovery of a topic at one time used to be complicated. Going to the library, searching through piles of cards that were categorized and confusing in itself. Trying to find the various sections of material and checking out the material (books, periodicals, etc.) I just thought, thank God for the library course offered through the University! How would I have ever found what I was looking for! I could brows through the high school, junior high school library, but when I got to college and saw the different library buildings. I thought to myself, "I hope I can get through this!" I did, but it took time and patience.

Time and patience is one thing I always seem to run short of. This is the reason why I am in favor of technology and most of all, the Internet. I believe the age of information has brought a lot of good things and bad things, but we won't go into this because that is another topic in itself. When I began using the Internet I did not find it as difficult as going to the library and learning how to search for a book or a required material. Again, I was exposed to the computer and the Internet through my college classes. Therefore, I did not find it so complex when I got a computer of my own to use at home. As a matter of fact, the only problem …show more content…

There were a few search engines I was already familiar with, but I decided to mainly use "Yahoo" because I had heard many people using "Yahoo" and being content with it. I did explore through some other search engines such as "Excite," "Alta Vista" and "Infoseek." "Excite was another search engine I utilized. Previously, I had difficulty searching for a specific topic but again using some of the guidelines by Branham, I was able to retrieve better

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