Reliability of Web Information in Relation to Big Data Phenomena

Internet is the worldwide interconnection of individual networks operated by governments, industries and private parties. It has consolidated itself as a very powerful platform that has changed forever the way we do business and communicate. It has become universal source of information for millions of people at home, school and workplace. Internet is changing over time and mainly because of the social web and mobile technology. Both of the innovations have increasable changed the way people use the internet. Since creation of face book in 2004 for instance, it has grown to a network of over two thousand million subscribers. While the mobile technology made it possible for more people to reach internet thus increasing the number of internet users everywhere. Internet continues to be most accessible platform of all the mass media; with a low investment it is easy for one to get a page in the web. In recent days information is billing up daily in the web from all sectors of life, our focus now shifts to the reliability of the information in the web. I relate this to the idea of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners –Lee that the web can be made more intelligent and perhaps even intuitive about how to serve a user's needs better. I.e. he observes that even if search engines indexes much of the Web's content, they have little ability to select the pages that a user really wants or needs. A lot of more issues are arising about security, transfer, integrity, medium of flow, the path it has to follow and accuracy of data sources. I will analyze the reliability of web information in these big data phenomena.