A sat nav system will strip you of visual beauty when driving - calculating to the minute where you're supposed to go - you end up driving on a 2" screen, nevermind what's out of the windshield. But the www and internet is a bit more vast than driving routes metaphorically speaking or not. Without the www we'd all be working towards the same goals, all trying to figure out the same thing, and if you hit jackpot, who is there to tell? No-one or very little people. A good way to communicate findings and make our future brighter. Why spend days trying to solve what others have done? Surely with this saving of time we can expand our idea's and move forward, one step ahead of the game!

I suggest everyone see Tracey & Hepburn in Desk Set. What did I use to do - call the "ask the library" number. A generation of people lacking in the social skills of communication is too one-dimensional to consider.

To all you intrepid road trippers out there, check out the newly enhanced Microsoft Live Search at http://www.live.com Video and Image search are the best in the business, and the standard search is highly relevant. Google not being a client, we should all set Live Search as our default search engine. :-)

Again, quoting Douglas Adams: '"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" "I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."' Loonquawl's anger is equal to someone getting irked at a search engine after not getting the answer they want. The search engine answered the question that was asked. If you put a single word into a search engine, you're providing zero context. It's the equivalent of walking up to a librarian and saying a single word, and expecting them to give you exactly the answer you need. I use a search engine exactly as I used to look up facts at a library...or when asking an expert in their field. Start general, and hone your question until you get to the answer you need. This process also has the added benefit of potentially helping you find questions you didn't know you had...and helps you shape your refined questions. "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso. True statement. But a person can use those answers to help formulate better questions, if they approach it in that manner, rather than just expecting a specific answer from a vague question.

great postings all -- and live should be your search engine -- try it -- and comment.. Glenn you prove my point --