Internet Search and Data Overload in the Digital Age of Information: Too many butterflies for the lepidopterologist.

In this funny stock photo a butterfly collector, a lepidopterologist, stands holding a butterfly net and is covered in butterflies and moths. His search has, in a sense, been too successful; now the challenge has become how to filter the results and how to manage and filter data in terms of storage, collection or retrieval, and usefulness. In this day and age of information overload how do we refine our searches so that they do not overwhelm us? How do we handle our data so that we can mine the information we actually need? Increasingly the challenge for business people and lay people alike is not how do we find information, but how do we sort through it, how do we sift out the relevant and germane bits of information that will actually help us reach our conclusions rather than drown us under a sea of irrelevant data?

Humor In Stock Photography About Searching, The Internet and the World Wide Web

Humor in stock photos can help them become more effective and compelling by drawing a viewer in. In this time of inundation with advertising and editorial messages increasingly we learn to tune-out the images and calls to action that constantly surround us. Provide a bit of humor, of comic relief, of entertainment, and you have a much better chance of attracting the attention of a member of your target audience. That is key...getting their attention...only then do you have a chance of actually reaching them with your message. This image of a man dressed in a Safari outfit and holding a butterfly net is such an image. It quickly get the message across that this man has been overwhelmed with too much of what he was after. He lets the net droop by his side, driven to in-action by the plethora of butterflies and moths. Too much!

Google Searches, internet Searches, Filters, and Information Management

We have all been thrust into this new world of Google, Yahoo, Internet and Web searches and more information than any one person could examine even in a hundred lifetimes. The importance of filters and information management is going to become more important than the information itself, for the ability to drill down into that morass of data is the only way we can find, absorb and utilize what will work for us, what will enable us to be more effective in business and in life.