Google is great for finding stuff.  But it has gotten commercial and is being manipulated by special interests.  Try googling hotels in York, England as a test.  First you get 50 ads and thinly discised ads before you actually find a hotel.  Now there is a new search engine that may be able to find out facts better than Google and be more discriminating than Wikipedia.

If you use search engines try Wolfram Alpha. It won’t be better than Google for finding out the name of a restaurant in La Jolla, CA but it seems to be very good for finding out the deepest spot in the Pacific Ocean.

Here is a link to the Wolfram Alpha Introduction tape.  Be sure to have ten minutes or so available to watch it.  Thanks to David Julian in Memphis for the introduction to this very useful new tool.