Google and Writing an Article with It

As companies faced off one another with their new and fancy search engines in cyberspace, users being given options from http://www.altavista.com/, http://www.yahoo.com/, http://www.askjeeves.com/, and others, one dominant winner would soon emerge. A search engine that started out as a small project between two Stanford Ph. D. students was what every now knows and uses today, Google.

It all began when the two developers thought that a search engine which looked for the relationships between web pages would show much more relevant web pages. They tested their theory out and Google was born. From there it expanded enormously and last year Google's stocks hit its high of $700 US per stock.

Whenever a user types any word into Google, a wide amount of searches appear within seconds. The only problem with it now is that sometimes if the search isn't conducted thoroughly enough any user can be bombarded with pages and pages of links that they're forced to scan through. A user using Google needs to have a more detailed focus of what they're looking for and any other possible terms that could relate.

For my research article I plan to do a profile about the process a first-time diabetics goes through. For starters, I'd want to know what diabetes and what it does to a person's body so I could start off my search with "Diabetes". I'd maybe go into the Google News section and see what articles have already been written about diabetes.

After gathering all the general information on the disease then it comes to the more focused scope. I'd want to look for diabetes centres in Toronto and see if there are any locations I could go to to talk to a doctor who may still be researching diabetes and anymore detailed information about what recent breakthroughs there might have been. As well, I'd hope to ask him to let me know about what most beginning diabetics go through or if he could connect me with one. For this, I'd then type "Diabetes centres" and see what I get.

There's only so much information I could get from Google, but all of it would only help me start off on what diabetes is and where I can find more information about it. Even while using Google, I'd need to check back between multiple sources to ensure it's accuracy, as you can never know how reliable or accurate it is. Google is an amazing place to get the general information, but when it comes down to getting all your information online, a journalist might want to think twice about whose putting it out there and how right it is.