| Heya, I'm sorry for the confusion. My issue with quoting webpages is not that it quotes them -- that's fine -- but that it does so in a very verbose manner. This leads to information overload. For example: Me: What is the boiling point of water at an altitude of 1km? Google: At sea level, water boils at 212 °F. With each 500-feet increase in elevation, the boiling point of water is lowered by just under 1 °F. At 7,500 feet, for example, water boils at about 198 °F. Because water boils at a lower temperature at higher elevations, foods that are prepared by boiling or simmering will cook at The problem is with the vast quantity of information, and the fact that some is both irrelevant and truncated. The last sentence is incomplete and cut off, yet as a listener I have no way of knowing this. I will thus try to remember it, at the expense of the facts that came previously. When reading a webpage, the important part is to read the specific parts of interest, and not overload the user. If it can't do that, it risks providing irrelevant or, quite frankly, confusing data (such as the odd answer to how much a Dreamliner weighs). I don't know if that's better than not providing an answer at all. |