Browsing the Internet is perhaps the easiest and fastest way to research the marketplace because the Internet is a giant warehouse of information on any topic you can imagine. The list of reliable search engines continues to grow and improve as technology evolves. If you visit the Web sites for search engines Google, Yahoo!, and Ask.com (to name just a few), or use Wikipedia to research various topics, you’ll discover that nearly any information you need is at your fingertips. Make it a habit to visit any or all of these Web sites before entering a negotiation. Remember, knowledge puts you a step ahead of the game.
But don’t believe everything you read on the Internet just because it’s sitting there in black and white. Anybody can put anything up on the Internet to be read by the world. Check your sources carefully. Information from the Internet is not like the information you find in a book from a reputable publisher in which editors have pored over every sentence for clarity and accuracy. Blogs in particular require scrutiny because most of them present the unabashed opinion of the author. Many sites are sponsored by commercial entities whose sole and undeniable aim is to change your mind about something or sell you something, and if the best way to do that is to leave out some essential facts, so be it. That being said, the Internet is a mighty awesome source of information.
But no one source is perfect for providing answers to everything. If the Internet doesn’t help you find the information that you need, the following sections discuss other resources that very well may.
But don’t believe everything you read on the Internet just because it’s sitting there in black and white. Anybody can put anything up on the Internet to be read by the world. Check your sources carefully. Information from the Internet is not like the information you find in a book from a reputable publisher in which editors have pored over every sentence for clarity and accuracy. Blogs in particular require scrutiny because most of them present the unabashed opinion of the author. Many sites are sponsored by commercial entities whose sole and undeniable aim is to change your mind about something or sell you something, and if the best way to do that is to leave out some essential facts, so be it. That being said, the Internet is a mighty awesome source of information.
But no one source is perfect for providing answers to everything. If the Internet doesn’t help you find the information that you need, the following sections discuss other resources that very well may.
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