The four most important characteristics for any DATA to be considered as information are:
1. Usefulness-the info should help in reaching to a decision
2. Reliability-source should be present & considered reliable
3. Sufficiency-half information is worse than none!
4. Timeliness- is it there soon enough OR dead late to be meaningful!!
For almost all information found on the Internet we do find the first three properties but certainly not the fourth one that is timeliness.
To my experience Internet is full of redundant and outdated information.
Redundancy is necessary but up to a limited extent. After that its useless...sometimes u search for
one topic and hundreds or mayB a few thousand posts come up..then its fine,
but when a lakh results come up and more than half of them are exactly alike then it is useless redundancy.
Outdated information is not handled properly by the website administrators.They put the content but do not remove it regularly..pages which are not being viewed or are outdated...should be removed and better kept in Archives.
Also,
Search engines like Google should have a method to automatically delete the pages which are older than a specific date from its index. Not only will it help the users to find the closest and updated information easily, but will also reduce the size of their index databases.
Nitin-03.01.07
1. Usefulness-the info should help in reaching to a decision
2. Reliability-source should be present & considered reliable
3. Sufficiency-half information is worse than none!
4. Timeliness- is it there soon enough OR dead late to be meaningful!!
For almost all information found on the Internet we do find the first three properties but certainly not the fourth one that is timeliness.
To my experience Internet is full of redundant and outdated information.
Redundancy is necessary but up to a limited extent. After that its useless...sometimes u search for
one topic and hundreds or mayB a few thousand posts come up..then its fine,
but when a lakh results come up and more than half of them are exactly alike then it is useless redundancy.
Outdated information is not handled properly by the website administrators.They put the content but do not remove it regularly..pages which are not being viewed or are outdated...should be removed and better kept in Archives.
Also,
Search engines like Google should have a method to automatically delete the pages which are older than a specific date from its index. Not only will it help the users to find the closest and updated information easily, but will also reduce the size of their index databases.
Nitin-03.01.07
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