The internet has become the hub of information that most people on earth now use as a place to do research, stay up to date on current events that interest them, and socialize. The way that information is conveyed across the internet in order for it to become useful for individuals worldwide has become more precise over the past few years, as the growing use of search engines as a starting point increases in popularity. The search engines themselves distill the generalized topic into chunks of information that people can use in quick form, through the snippits that Google places into their search results. By searching for a topic, then scanning the first page of google results that are delivered, many people no longer need to even visit the indexed pages to find out as much information as they need. Using search engines is now very much like reading the headlines in a newspaper.
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