Search tools-finding and evaluating informaton on the Net/Webquest

Hello
I didnt realize I was so behind on my blogs and sadly some of them got lost. well...here goes some of my thoughts.
Search Tools-Finding and evaluating information on the net/web.
When I was younger and we first got a computer I can honestly say I was inclined to believe what was on the internet. I never got why teachers would get up in arms when students used internet sources. I would keep using the things I found on the internet as a decent source of information until I got to university. I was writing a paper and I cant remeber what it was on but it was some sort of time period of a play. I had a lot written down and then I decided I go to the libray and check out if I had everything right. Well I didnt and I felt very silly that I almost sent in a paper with information that was so wrong that I dont even want to say what I had written. It made me realize why teachers in highschool and professors in university tried to express that idea to so many students. Alot didnt realize just how much wrong information is out there. There is so much based on theorys and not on facts. It made me think about the entertainment industry. Actors , singer and directors are alway influenced so heavily by the internet and what people write. Not only is their personal and work life spread all over the internet...so are rumours. There is hardly a that goes by that some actor or singer isnt issuing out statments on some rumour that spread over the internet. If they dont issue a statment the rumour only grows. All these false information can crush them and people will not want anything to do with them because there is to much negitiva stigma attached to them. Just think of that on a business level, not in the entertaiment level, The internet can be such a useful tool but yet it could make or break a business. People can go online and leave comments on products and just the company in general that other people can view. I dont think that we realize the power we weild in our words.