Internet research has become a valuable tool for companies, organizations or individuals in search of information. There are many different approaches one can take when conducting Internet research. What is important to remember is the Internet is a library that expands at a phenomenal rate every day. And there are indexes that are maintained by Universities throughout the world. However, the Internet is without the watchful eye of a librarian and without the discipline of a single, comprehensive card catalog. It is a bundle of information packages which, consistent with their usually free nature, almost always come with explicit disclaimers of accuracy and disclaimers of all other conceivable warranties. Yet, despite the obvious shortcomings of this evolving interactive world, the Internet already can be an amazing resource.

With the development of new search engine capabilities, web browsers, e-mail clients, web servers, helper applications, plug-in software, rapid application development software, and other revolutionary tools such as Java from Sun and ActiveX from Microsoft makes the Internet of today an entirely different world than the Gopher menus designed just a few years ago.

This site reviews the basic types of World Wide Web resources which are available and outlines the current state of Internet sites useful to research and planning.

As a starting point lets look at a search engine that is easy to use but extremely powerful. The RealNames Service is a revolutionary new way to locate companies, products and brands on the internet. It enables consumers to navigate directly to a specific web page, using simple words and phrases in any human language.

For users, the service is completely free and significantly improves navigation on the web. RealNames provide the first real alternative to Universal Resource Locators (URL's), it is easy to use and it delivers better results then traditional search engines. Click here to visit RealNames.

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