<p>What do you guys think of it. Is it actually credible or is it random things. Whenever I google search anything, its always within the first 5 results. Can you rely on it or should you ignore it.</p>
<p>All of my teachers have told us not to go to wikipedia, but I have yet to find any false info on it (from what I've been researching).</p>
<p>I love Wikipedia.</p>
<p>Me too.
wikipedia saves me loads of time.</p>
<p>i don't think i could live without wikipedia</p>
<p>same here. ^^ I've spent hours on it. lol</p>
<p>If it comes down to it, use Wikipedia for the links at the bottom of whichever page you're using. Usually the people who write the articles are nice enough to leave references.</p>
<p>people will delete anything false fairly quickly</p>
<p>My school has a huge display of anti-google and anti-wiki signs in the library. Of course, noone listens to these. We all use wikipedia for reports and then wind up citing databases in our bibliographies. Google and Wikipedia <3</p>
<p>Anti-GOOGLE?!</p>
<p>yep. We have subscriptions to a million databases and the librarian is obsessed with them. According to her google NEVER gives you accurate information.</p>
<p>haha... my AP Euro teacher actually told us to use wiki the other day... His view was that people aren't going to write false stuff about someone who died like 200 years ago... they've moved on... </p>
<p>hahahahaha... you'd have to be there I guess.</p>
<p>No way, nobody can be anti-google.
I love wikipedia because it's actually very accurate (so far as I've seen), at least for a wiki.</p>
<p>Well, if you have subscriptions to all the databases, why in the world would you want to use Google?</p>
<p>1) It's a legal way to break the "law."<br>
2) Google is easier. It's built into the browser so there's no need for typing in a url and you don't have to enter a password.<br>
3) The databases come up with primary sources and newspaper and magazine articles. When writing a research report, it is nice to have the info in front of you rather than having to find it within a piece of literature.
4) Why not use google and wikipedia?</p>
<p>Well, I suppose it wouldn't be as effective for getting information but come on!! Google is a part of popular culture these days. There are a couple search engines around that can match or even beat Google, but most people don't use them because, well, GOOGLE'S COOL. Use it and you're awesome</p>
<p>...just like everyone else. :)</p>
<p>(addition to 4) besides the risk of getting false info</p>
<p>haha yeah mandolive. I think its just been incorporated into our society. If anyone I know wants to search for something on the internet, they don't say, "I'll go surf the web" like I would have heard in the late 90's. Now it would be "I'll Google it" or "I'll Wiki it." It's kinda like Kleenex.</p>
<p>i saw false info on kevin federline once. my friend showed it to me it was hilarious!
<3 wikipedia use it</p>
<p>That's very true with Kleenex. There's also Ziploc and Bandaid, along with lots more I can't think of off the top of my head.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be surfing the net with my trusty googleboard (Not really, I'll just be lurking around CC).</p>