Quality travel information on the web is not even that good, in general, for an average web surfer. Type anything like "Hawaii hotels" into google and you're slammed with websites filled with ads. Or even add "reviews" to your search and you still get junk. There are a few good websites with real user submitted content (I forget which websites), but this is an areas where the adsense spammers seem to be winning.
So, it is sad to see that guidebooks are suffering, since that was generally a somewhat reliable place to get info for being a tourist.
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Quality travel information on the web is not even that good, in general, for an average web surfer. Type anything like "Hawaii hotels" into google and you're slammed with websites filled with ads. Or even add "reviews" to your search and you still get junk. There are a few good websites with real user submitted content (I forget which websites), but this is an areas where the adsense spammers seem to be winning.
So, it is sad to see that guidebooks are suffering, since that was generally a somewhat reliable place to get info for being a tourist.