Reflection on scavenger hunt

This surfing practice makes me realize that to retrieve information online can be more complicated and time-consuming than what I have thought. First, there are a variety of webpages which may provide useful information but contain numerous other features as well. For instance, when I look for itinerary for Disney Aulani and Jimmy Buffett’s collaborators, I need to browse through the pages to screen for relevant content. Second, just a blind input of the keywords may not be enough for a searching and I need to have some ideas where I can likely find the information. Say, in getting the price quotes of item 2, I need to search for online shopping sites for general items before I can really perform the purchase and review the best price. Third, even though no matching result comes up, I need not give up too quickly as the content may be just there waiting for me to type in the right searching keyword. This happens when I try to locate a 3-bedroom-house from Redefine. The website shows that there is no offer that meets my budget at the beginning, but after I eliminate the region constraint and look through all the available property nearby, then the target house shows up. Fourth, I now recognize that that there are quite a number of search engines other than Google, Yahoo, and BING, and there are free websites that help net-users create visual presentation of text data in other forms like tag clouds.