Which Do You Think Has More Information?

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<p>Which do you think is more informative:</p>

<p>All of the Webpages on the Internet </p>

<p>versus </p>

<p>All of the books that have ever been written?</p>

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<p>About what?</p>

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<p>If you are looking for information, why not use all the resources available?</p>

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<p>You’ll never get through either of them so why does it matter? </p>

<p>And I 2nd ek.</p>

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<h1>2 All the books unless they’re all available as e-books now then #1 :)</h1>

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<p>Good answer krlilies!</p>

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<p>Depends on what you’re researching. Science or technology? the internet. History? still books. </p>

<p>JMHO. YMMV.</p>

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<p>webpages-facebook has tons of info about people that books don’t have, plus there are books on the internet</p>

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<p>with regards to breaking advances in medicine, I would prefer a doctor with internet access vs one with a library card (even if the later was to the Library of Congress!)</p>

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<p>The problem with the internet, according to Ben Franklin, is that much of the info on it is either inaccurate or outright falsities.</p>

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<p>My guess without asking Mr Google, would be the web. An equally interesting question would be how much of the written world of books is also online.</p>

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<p>Unique items of information, or total overall bits of information?</p>

<p>In all human languages, or just in English?</p>

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<p>NJRes,</p>

<p>Google Books is trying to digitize all the world’s books. So far, it has digitized roughly 15% of all books.</p>

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<p>These are completely separate questions.</p>

<p>The internet is more informative, because in order to be informed you have to have access to the information, and the internet provides easier, access.</p>

<p>Which has more information - IMO there is a tremendous amount of redundancy in books. There are probably millions of history books; how many contain truly unique information? I would guess that at this point the internet has more information - the unique old stuff has found its way online somewhere by now, and the new stuff is much more likely to only be on-line.</p>

<p>We perhaps haven’t reached the tipping point yet, but if we haven’t I think we will soon.</p>

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<p>“Do not believe everything you read on the internet.” -Abraham Lincoln</p>

<p>On a serious note, I would also caution people also not to believe everything they read in a book. And given the amount of academic fraud coming out as well as the very marked bias in the literature for positive results, even peer reviewed journals need to be approached with caution.</p>

<p>Ultimately, whether one or the other has more information is interesting to contemplate, but there’s no question that the internet makes said information incredibly more accessible. For good and for bad. A veteran professor who I had for a grad course in teaching this semester has said that recently, she has experienced students attempting to catch her in errors during her lecture by searching everything she says. Apparently they generally have some sort of fundamental misunderstanding though and wind up embarrassing themselves.</p>