Comments on: The Internet is A Car and I’m Driving It

By: Goldie the Goldfish

Goldie the Goldfish — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:50:24 +0000

I love that you used the analogy of a car in this post. I think that really is the best way to describe what Verified is and everything that it’s trying to do. I also understand your confusion about how people don’t already follow SIFT. I’m not going to pretend that I stay super up to date on news and fact check literally everything but as soon as I see something that seems the tiniest bit off I still Google it because I just want to see if it’s true. There were a few parts in the book where they gave advice and I was like, “Do people not already do this?” Overall, I think you did a great job of summarizing all of the important things we covered.

By: The01Raven

The01Raven — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:02:58 +0000

Firstly, I never really thought of manuals as a How-To-Guide, but I guess they kinda are. Secondly, You do a great job covering the early chapters of Verified. Your section “Breaking Habits” is the best part of this post. You write of how URLs are not actually that important. I remember how when my generation (Gen Z), were in school, we were taught to care about the URL above everything else. We were taught a wide variety of techniques that ended up being terribly unhelpful for practical internet usage. It’s not their fault, they were looking at the internet the way you would with books. But now we all have habits or biases that make it harder to find good and accurate information on the web.

By: C6H6 - Benzene

C6H6 - Benzene — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:14:43 +0000

Your title is perfect. I love that you designed it completely around the idea of driving a car, and looking in a car manual. Granted, as you said as well, it is stated so it’s nothing out of the ordinary, but bringing it into focus allows the reader to really understand the purpose of the book, and you do a great job here.
SIFT is a perfect representation of what a technological manual would look like, and on top of that navigating google hits even more in my opinion. Due to the fact that you have to design how you want to ask a question can alter how Google is going to perceive it and from there provide you answers. This allows you to have complete control over what you want to look through, and on top of using major search debunks like SIFT be able to navigate through the internet.