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The truth is that most web content is irrelevant garbage. Do you care that an ad doesn't have a 'published on' date? Do you care that the brochures you get in the mail that you instantly throw out do not have a publish date? Most web content falls under this category: ephemeral junk. It's irresponsible to use the web for meaningful research purposes. For most technical questions, go to manuals, and for most humanistic questions, hit the books. The web can be a means to inform research, but the majority of material is basically "39 weird teeth whitening tricks the dentists don't want you to know."