How to Search Online

As an Internet field of technical expertise, “Search,” is by far one of the most complicated and complex agendas to tackle for both an Internet user and an Internet contributor.  It is this very category that has launched Internet giants like Google and Yahoo! onto the big screen of the global market place.  Yet where these multi-billion dollar companies excel, they also heavily fall short at being the ideal tool that average Joe Shmoe needs to find his fix on the World Wide Web.  Search field requests often give unassociated content to the internet user’s mindset, and discovering the proper keywords that would unlock the path to golden success often require Internet familiarity to a few key websites.

Nevertheless, there are amazing alternatives to “Search” that are finding themselves gain traction on the road of digital popularity.  Essentially, they are the randomizer content providers that ultimately link users to related content on the basis of category differentiation.  Two of the so-named randomizers are the websites StumbleUpon.com and Digg.com.

Digg.com is an easy search tool that offers limited control over content material and limited categorization of received content.  The user is confined to set categories to search for their unknown content on the Internet from contributors more than willing to attract users to their websites.  Organized through a popularity ranking system of “digg it’s,” the more popular websites can be sorted out on the basis of heavy interest.  While on this site, content comes at the user abundantly fast thanks to the heavy contribution base of Internet “creators.”  One of the fatal flaws of Digg, however, is their inability to link the user to their ideal content.  It is only able to populate the screen with user-rated material.

StumbleUpon.com is another search tool for the person who has a broad category of material for which they are searching.  While more abundant in their choice of categories, StumbleUpon is unique in the sense that they provide instant content with limited choice.  Pages are flashed upon the screen of the user at random through the click of an easy-to-use button.  For the user who seeks material when he does not know what he is wanting to see, StumbleUpon provides the ideal solution to his needs.

Overall, “Search” as an Internet tool still heavily lacks the ability to direct a contributor to the whim of a user in an accurate and timely manner.  As the Internet progresses, its dimensions continue to compound creating a budding problem to tackle from the experts of the industry.  The introduction of images and videos further complex the already-complicated issues of identification, classification, and accessibility that haunt lead designers.  What the Internet stores for tomorrow lingers as a mysterious curiosity beckoning over the horizon’s brightening light.