ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB

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Current, topical information, such as news from around the world .

Information which has not been edited or proven.

Spanish Wikipedia erroneously announces Le Clezio's death Europe NewsMadrid - The Spanish edition of the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia on Thursday erroneously said French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio had died of a heart attack on hearing that he had won the literature Nobel Prize. 'On hearing the news, because of the surprise, he suffered a heart attack and was taken in critical condition to the Charles de Gaulle hospital in Paris, where he died at 1.05 pm,' the Wikipedia entry on Le Clezio said. The joke was eliminated from Wikipedia two minutes after it had appeared, but its author reintroduced it, adding that French President Nicolas Sarkozy had expressed his condolences to Le Clezio's family. The second text was also corrected immediately by Wikipedia.

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Information about companies and organizations.

Limitations on what companies post on the Web.

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Information published by government agencies.

Costly or "invisible" information.

MissionThe Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent US Government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers.For more on the Agency's mission, visit our Strategic Intent.

The "visible web" is what you can find using general web search engines. It's also what you see in almost all subject directories. The "invisible web" is what you cannot retrieve ("see") using these types of tools.

Advantages DisadvantagesInformation on topics or by authors without access to mainstream publishing venues.

Volatility of file location and availability

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Information purchased and organized by libraries.

Historical information, subscription databases and other important information may not be available.

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Multimedia resources such as sounds, images, and video.

Connection and download time may be extremely slow.