The pros and cons about using internet as a main research source

Internet is a good choice when doing a research. This is a tool which has specific characteristic that will give you both advantage and disadvantage. The advantages of using internet are getting an access to valuable and updated information easily since internet connects people and writing in its e-journals also internet discussion groups. This is an efficient route for to get daily information like newspaper and other printing journals. This tool also enables you to get more options in getting information since it has hundreds page for one keyword. Internet also gives a new way to express opinion and argumentation even ideas for those who do not have an access to printing media. The researcher will also have access to reliable or unreliable information since people have various interests so the information will be varied. Internet also gives easy access for various databases and dataset from various websites like statistical data, demographic or social science data. This tool will also provide data from U.S. federal government as one of the biggest publishers. It will be easy to get international information not only official data from the countries official websites but also citizen’s discussion and newsgroup from various nationalities.

The other advantages that will be obtained from doing a research by internet are speed, timeliness and multimedia. Researching through the internet only needs few seconds and in minutes you will have enough information for your research. Having information made few seconds ago is possible through the internet. Obtaining more information since you can have not only text but also graphics, video and audio. The best advantage is hyper-linking. This is a link which is inserted in the web page which contains related source and information.

Though it seems like internet has big advantages but it also has big disadvantages. The most significant disadvantages are its collection of information which means advantages and disadvantages. On the internet, you will have scholarly paper which has beneficial and correct also reliable information and a child’s short essay about her vacation. There are reliable newswire as well as wrong information from the opposite side of the subject along with advertisements and commercials; there are also scientific reports from official Department of Energy. Sometimes, it is difficult to separate the right information for your research.

For some people, it is difficult to find the right information effectively. You will have effective search method when you use library traditional electronic database. Internet is limited by the search engines. The result of the search engine is also influenced by the way web pages are created. Sometimes you will only be able to have small part of the entire pages on the internet. It is difficult to distinguish the valuable of the trivial pages so you will have random results. Web is appeared in the early 1990s, almost all information in the internet was uploaded at that time. Nowadays, people trend to upload older data which makes internet as one of the most complete source in finding information. The lack of internet is due to the lack of context since the search engine only gives single page from a multi-page document, the large context may be lost. The information on the internet is usually temporary. Web is unstable. The information will be disappear and move or appear again in different page. This can be a problem since they need to have a stable page for reference which is the most strict rule in academic research.

Coverage’s selectivity is the other problem of internet. Though internet has a large capacity to have more information, most of knowledge and reliable reference are printed. Searching information through the internet is no longer a comprehensive way to get the right info or knowledge. What’s on the internet is beyond the limits of the search engines. Off-limits sites sometimes can only be accessed only to those who have the password, subscription fee and registered member. You can also see that this off-limit websites are newspapers and journal online, professional website on the internet with only privileged member.

The democracy are now practiced on the internet

It’s very rare that we are given the opportunity as the citizens to get participate in a revolution of the internet. The citizens that founded our republic took part in a revolution which has affected each corner of the earth for more than 200 years of now. The great of our grandfathers and fathers which took part in the revolution during the World War II when we’re definitely successful get rid of the crazy world of Adolf Hitler and his technology of death which was the sweeping civilization. And then we all participated in the quiet revolution when the Communism fell to the knees with some little more than one decade ago. And this went out with the whimper.

It actually doesn’t have to be that way. Where millions could get died in the eastern of the Europe and inside the USSR itself. Much more quietly, this brutal totalitarian dictatorship which sought to enslave the planet quietly being gone, and with more remarkably, they then became capitalists. What a wild world that we live in, isn’t it. I tell you that we’re on the eve of the new American Revolution, maybe as powerful as the birth of our democracy right in the year of 1700’s.

What was happen then is that the force of this country is surely in the process of being displace to the people whom they’re the voters. You should remember that we’re born as being a Republic, also remember the words “And to the Republic, for which it stands”, it’s stated at the pledge of Allegiance. We are surely fast to become the democracy depends on the information which created by the Internet and cable television as the tool to each of everyone’s home. You can granted that there’s great noise from the internet, which has the purpose that there is some kind of abundance of useless information, which in the universe there are so many germs. And you don’t need to be surprised that they are also in the internet as well.

If you want to know then think about what has finally happened in only few short years? It wasn’t that long ago that the mainstream media had the 100% of liberal bias. Surely an objective when to look at ABC, NBC, and then CBS which would reveal their liberal orientation. From their origins to their new topics, the media surely played it to the left of the center. And then Richard Nixon would never have had to resign from the office whether the Senate or the House that republican and then the media was quite neutral. Now as today, the cable television and Internet which the tide has surely even up, and maybe going to swing to another side as well.

You should remember that Dan Rather of CBS shows the story on George Bush with the National Guard that might be right, but he surely knew that he can’t prove it. In the attempt to give effect to the election of the two weeks before the election, finally he showed it anyway. The internet had finally blows up his 40 years of career and then forced him to do his resignation. The bloggers were quite relentless in downing rather, which gave the result of disgraceful behind the scenes. The date will actually never revealed the story of the firing one man of the Dan Rather.

Without the cable and internet television, Dan Rather could still be showing his liberal bias on prime time television on each night. The sophisticated media and the print journalism can’t hold what was really happened with the cable and Internet revolution which we’re pretty much involved in it.

The internet history was spread on the internet itself

For more than a while there, the world wide web and the internet finally showed great promise. They told about the sweet nothing in the ears of us, trying to be the voice of the marginal things which is the new democracy, the great equalizer. But when it wasn’t to be, especially for the internet it has a new master. No, it’s definitely not google. Also it’s not microsoft. Another no is it’s not the good ole’s Uncle Sam. They’re definitely only the caretakers. The internet’s new master is actually bigger than they will ever be and then far and far older.

Well now it’s time to meet the master. If you haven’t noticed that the internet’s new master is the same master which holds the leash of all sophisticated commercial media. The internet’s new master is actually the power and money which is suit it enough. It’s not the capacity to get the money or any of the capacity to improve the power eventhough those are surely nice fringe-benefits. Not again, then the Internet’s new master is the powerful with much money of collective.

Those above which is surely mould and reflect the mainstream opinion, behavior with value. I thought that we finally have seen it, which given the Internet’s military sector of the birthplace. But then again, we were definitely young and optimistic, and definitely we did want to believe! Are you thinking about a bit of melodramatic? Then don’t think it’ll be weird, well maybe a little depends on the  fairly but accurate nonetheless. Then give me the chance to explain it as well.

And then the early promise of equity akes the internet started out as the network of computer s which being set up for the military use. To cut the long story to the short one, the World Wide Web started out simply because it could where the internet was there to take host of it. And then the technology was surely there to give it. Both were definitely heralded just like the new face of democracy. At long last, the voiceless finally had a voice.

Of course, eventhough in those heady days, we all known of some fundamental practical and the technological limitations that really threw a spanner in the works for the New World Orderless kind of theory. To get started, the big majority of the world’s population didn’t even have access to any of computer, which much less have one with internet access. As a matter of fact, that was still the case eventhough after the new master take the reins which is probably still it is. But we definitely got the faith in the Internet’s potential. I even wrote a paper in the middle of the 90s years debating the Internet’s promises for a kind of empowerment, thus I quote :

To be such a decentralized also anonymous term of communication, the internet gives great benefits to the world. Being developed or anonymous if really that desired, the communications skills, and the better access to more sources of local and international news, just to name it a couple. Meanwhile at the same time, the internet has great threats to the world’s existing media and political powers, it’s not merely because of the redistribution of such datas and informations or and therefore the power to the populace, but surely because of the apparant which appear impractically or impossibility ? That this need to be questioned. When this is of regulating the information that flow in and out of any kind of country. And finally, I did not see that the internet’s true potential for control and censorship is the content itself.

As you’d know that those who have the content is the rightful king (not only on the internet, of course).

The politics campaign are running through the internet

Regarding to the nowadays poll made by the ComputerWorld, around forty percent of the whole population pretty sure that people have the ability to improve their strength of politics will by going online. Give it the underline that there are many academics quite sure that the people in western societies are definitely getting more technologically educated in order to gain the more and more influence in the politics matters. As an example, Mr. Jeffrey Cole, a director at the University of Southern California States said that,”This year, the six percent people who using the internet in the regular way will surely have their own blogs, sixteen percent said that they post some pictures on the Web, and then more than ten percent manage their own websites. While in 2003, three percent of the internet regular users said that they are blogging, eleven percent said that they’re posting pictures, and not more than nine percent they manage some websites. This is taken from the ComputerWorld year 2005 volume 1.

Therefore the appearing question showed up by many people is,”Is really the Internet giving the more participatory and democratic human society for the future?”. Mr. Cole agrees that the internet gives the most important role in giving the more decent society which support participatory increase. Active in debate, he said that because of the younger generation having the ability to effectively communicate through the Internet Forums, they are still have the courage to show their political thought by posting online. The younger generation also has the opportunity to connect in academic debate with people who possibly older than them that surely have many more experience, named them the university lecturers, the people who has specifically being the expert of the area that has been discussed. Another that needs to be underlined is that the internet has surely showed its benefit and advantages in the form of giving knowledge for the younger generation which will role in the future.

Even though, the positive advantages which can be attained via the use of the internet is not only expand and reach the young people, but they also produced an impact for those which are in the workforce and those who are keen to study more about some of their nation’ politics program. The research has told that so many American are browsing in the internet before the Federal Election to improve their  knowledge regarding the political parties and absolutely their policies. Mr.Cole said that the internet is not a marginal force within the American politics anymore, it’s immediately start to become the main force in empowering the voters.”. This is stated inside the ComputerWorld in the year of 2005 volume 1. As an example the success of the election of the former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was sure that because of the internet, the online fundraising and the act of lobbying was being practically done to make sure that the people were quite informed by the parties policies.

One that need to highlighted is that because of the power of the internet, even though many would argue about one person that need to be sure about the level of the knowledge and the very high expertise before they are able to master all the services within the internet and all the search engine very efficiently. All of these people has the same opinion that the new programs and computer technicians are slowly but quite sure going to change the technological discourse just to accommodate the people who probably not be that really technically inclined.

Even though it’s usually has the same thoughts that the environment of the cyberspace and the goal of using the internet is constantly change into suits the needs of the contemporary society, attaining the information about politics parties and their policies still become the top priority for the internet users, specifically for those who lived in Western Society.

Now, article marketing is being used for any products

With the Internet the new venue for business, article marketing has become the new trend for advertising and marketing products to consumers. These articles do not only provide information on a variety of topics, it also allows visitors to see the sites. It is because of this wide range of content why it is so easy now to research over the Internet.

Article marketing, to those who are not yet familiar with the field, is the use of articles to help introduce the products that the sites are selling. These articles will often contain a bio box and a byline that will include the name of the business and the contact information. Article marketing is also used in increasing the rank of a site in search engines like Yahoo and Google.

You see, the more articles you put into the directory, the better will your site’s search results will be. Of course, websites that are on top of the sites will have more visitors and in turn better sales from the increased consumer viewing.

A site that has reliable and good content will not only expect the support of the online viewers but also advertisers who feel that they will be viewed more in the website. These companies are called online advertisers.

Some online advertisers can post their advertisement for free in exchange for a percentage of the income generated by the ads or the number of views of the ad. Some sites however sell their space to online advertisers. The pop up advertisements that you see in yahoo every time you open the search engine is an example of this paid advertisement.

But this usage of articles in article marketing has also led to the decrease in content and structure quality of the write-ups. Because many sites are putting in more articles than they can finish, the articles are often haphazardly done and unfinished. Many will contain grammar mistakes and even wrong spelling. Some sites will even have unfinished articles with the paragraph all about the topic you searched on but the body of the article about an entirely different topics. It will take you a while before you can sort out everything.

The trend of article marketing has also led to a lot of copied content or rephrased content. When you try keyword search and click on the websites that come out in the results, you will notice that a lot of them will have the same content. Some will have the same exact content while others will just be a re-written version of the original that was posted.

From being used as a way to increase the credibility of the product and giving information to the consumers and researchers, article marketing has become a business that has squeezed out the quality from the articles that are posted.

Because of this, researchers on the internet have been cautioned to only check the websites that are being kept by reliable sources such as universities, government agencies, foreign organizations and research facilities. Some sources of information over the internet are not actually to be trusted when it comes to content and originality.

Article marketing have definitely changed the face of the Internet. The question is: Is it for the better or for the worse? We will have to wait and see article marketing in the future.