There is a lot of information out there on the internet for people to collect. Some of it is credible and some of it is just people's opinions. You really have to be careful when searching for information online. I always check the url to see if that website is a credible website and I always look at the overall website to make sure it looks professional. If the website does not look professional and has a lot of advertisements along the sides of it, it is probably not the best site to get your information from. You also have to be careful about which sites to go to when looking for information because programmers will put harmful things on those websites to hurt your computer.
There is one website that I am looking at which I consider to be a good website. It is businesslink.gov. First of all this is a reliable website because it is a government website. The website looks very professional and there are no advertisements on it. You can tell the information is true because of the different things that are posted you know from personal knowledge that it is true. I also know that this is a reliable source because it is relevant to my topic. The information doesn't provide opinions nor does it go off on a rant about unrelated issues or topics.
One website that is not a good site to get reliable information is http://mobileoffice.about.com/. This site has different articles about different things. Some of the articles are blog posts and some of them are opinionated. Information from blogs can be reliable but it always helps to look up where that person got there information from because sometimes they could be posting incorrect information. This website also has a lot of links and just too much things going on on it for it to be reliable. There are a lot of short articles which really do not give you that extensive research that you are looking for. Also there are different articles about different topics that don't directly relate to each other. It just doesn't look like a website for research. It looks like a website where you share your opinion on different news topics.
Although, there are a lot of good website related sources that will give you good information about mobile technologies. Since my topic is so broad it is pretty easy to find the information you want from searching online. I could not find a lot of bad websites for my topic because the subject of mobile technology is pretty factual, although people will give there opinions. In today's age it is harder to find reliable resources on online because there is so much out there. People can just put anything they want to online and it makes it difficult for other people trying to find real information. You really have to be careful and make sure you know what is a good website and what is a bad website so that you don't receive bad information.
Good contrast (except that the "bad" site you present actually originates with "about.com" and not a mobile computing company). In response to your critique of the "bad site" having too many links and "things going on," some researchers have found that more information can enhance the credibility of the site. Given that finding, it appears as though the information itself is more important the the amount of information on the page.
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