Personally. I believe it to be the internet in general. It's full of useless informationm but to find something you NEED or actual FACT, HAHAHA.
Most of what you do find is only opinion as the internet is mostly
opinion and when looking for info you end up with lot's of useless garbage but very little of substance.
Fort instance. I recently rebuilt my forum starting from scratch including a new domain. I had to teach myself a crash course in PHP and FTP and "building a REAL site" as opposed to the type of site I had used before.
So. first thing I had to do was figure out how to upload to a server. Used ftp, etc.
So, you'd think enough people did this that there would be ALL KINDS of info!!
Except most "tutorials" even start off with, "Once you've loaded your site to your server...."
You get the idea.
Then doing searches and searches I had to really WORK at finding ANY useful information. Even little things. Do a search and instead of valid info get a forum with the question looked for on a thread but all that is there is some12 year old going "Why bother?" or "We've already discussed this NOOB!!" to someone asking a valid question and of course there being NO links to that elusive "discussion"!!
So I get why people get frustrated. Looking for info on a particular make and model of car? I know. Google it. Even if you ask a specific question, you're likely to get Ebay ads!!!
Ah well. Sometimes you get lucky but you have to search "around" the subject and follow "trails".
And most importantly. remember, even the HAMB is just opinion. Just because someone did it don't mean they did it right!! Find a few people that did it and compare notes. NEVER take the Wikipedia for "fact" as again, it's just people's opinions. Use it as a tool to find VALID information and go on the hunt from there.
I'll use Wiki to quickly look something up but will never quote it for facts on my own forum as it's not "fact". It's pretty accurate in a lot of cases though so if you're stuck, go ahead and use it but DOUBLE CHECK if at all possible!!
Even books aren't always accurate and in Biographys and similar may be skewed to a person's personal bias so you can imagine how inaccurate the internet can be!! But as you would with looking something up in books, just get other opinions and compare the info.
An example? Read Lee Iaccoca's biography and you will think Henry Ford 2 was a vile evil creature. But if you read other more truthful accounts, he is one Hell of a character and his main crime to Iaccoca's screwed up view was he never apologized to anyone for who he was!!
So, search but search carefully. It can be fun but I've found in the long run it can often be exhausting and a waste of time. Depends on my moods.
