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Let’s face it, the Inter­net has become a sta­ple in our soci­ety. I’ve known peo­ple who would drop every­thing (and that includes their own chil­dren) just to check their email, stocks and EBay auc­tions. We live in a world where infor­ma­tion is at our fin­ger­tips and lit­er­ally just a key­stroke away.

Mil­lions of users world­wide use Google for one func­tion: to search for infor­ma­tion. Con­tent that includes recipes, car man­u­als, gar­den­ing tips and any­thing you would expect to be in an ency­clo­pe­dia can be researched through Google, but what about archiv­ing the infor­ma­tion you find? Imag­ine sav­ing web sites that you find in the present for the future. We’re talk­ing 5–10 years from now when many of the links stored in your Favorites folder will be obso­lete. At which point to coun­ter­act the inevitable you could print out every­thing you find and store them in Peechee fold­ers, or you could use a ser­vice that is attempt­ing to solve this issue.

Furl.net is “ded­i­cated to mak­ing it eas­ier for users to archive and share infor­ma­tion on the Web. With a cou­ple clicks, Furl will archive any page (soon includ­ing its text and graph­ics). You can eas­ily find it by brows­ing your per­sonal direc­tory of web pages or by using the full text search that only searches pages you’ve archived. It’s like hav­ing your own Google.”

By sim­ply adding a but­ton to your browser you can instantly save any web site that you visit for future ref­er­ence. This means if you find a deli­cious Rueben Meat­loaf recipe (after watch­ing Camp­fire Café), you can click the ‘Furl It’ but­ton and the ser­vice will not only save the work­ing link but also an archived copy just in case the EMG Camp­fire servers char­baque overnight.