Tired of Search Engines?

The Internet has a wealth of information. Unfortunately, you always need a navigator to help you on the way to locate the most relevant information.

Search engines are the online navigators. The way search engines collect data is through a search bot. A search bot crawls the Internet by links and maps the links to keywords. Because a search bot is a piece of software, it is inevitable that the bot has no knowledge of what it is collecting. The direct consequence is the level of noise in the form of junk links is very high. The user can get roughly the idea of a topic but not in the form of knowledge tree. This is the intrinsic weakness of search engines.

Encyclopedia was developed in 18th century from dictionary. The primary focus of an encyclopedia is the building of knowledge tree. It enables a reader to relate a term to the broader field of knowledge. This is extremely useful if the reader has absolute no knowledge in the term he is trying to find out.

The most useful open encyclopedia resources on the Internet are Answers.com and Wikipedia.

- Answers.com (founded by Bob Rosenschein, listed on NASDAQ)
- Wikipedia (founded by Jimmy Wales, non-profit corporation)