| Many people today use the Internet to send and receive e-mail, shop, pay bills, search for lost relatives and ancestors, chat with kindred spirits in obscure chat rooms, play games, view movies, listen to music, find partners, search for jobs, search for employees, research medical issues, find inexpensive hotels and vacation packages, hunt for collectibles, and do countless other things. One estimate places the number of daily Internet users at 425 million people worldwide.
Adjunct to our use of the Internet is our need to find a particular nugget of information that we require to fulfill some need we have. Perhaps we want to find out when the War of 1812 was fought or the length of the Seven Year’s War. Maybe we are looking for that special person. Or perhaps we search for a long-lost relative. How about an inexpensive vacation to Orlando? Whatever the reason, millions of people each day get on their computer and look for information. |