How is it possible to use the internet to solve a corrosion problem?
There are several different possible alternative solutions:
1) Make a search with Google or another search engine, however we can assure you that Google is our first choice
2) Use a Corrosion or Engineering Forum
3) Use an “expert” website like live person or something similar
4) ….
We will focus on the first two, and analyze which are, in our opinion, the pro and cons of each one of the above alternatives:
Google...
1) Pros:
• Google is Google, everything is on the web, and almost everything has ever been written and published in the “hands” of Google…
• Maybe Google is still not perfect and return exactly what you’re looking for but there is a good chance that in the first 10’s results you’ll find something really useful...
2) Cons:
• If you don’t use the right words and phrases in your search, you’ll have to scan 10’s of result to find something useful, this can be frustrating and also a waste of time.
• Google is Google but sometimes the “best” results are not the first results even if you use the right words. It happens sometimes, when we made corrosion related searches that the most relevant results are not in the first 3-4 pages. So there is the possibility that you’ll miss them…
Forum:
1) Pros:
• When you post in a forum, you are asking a question to “real” person and not to a PC.
• If the forum is some years old there is a good chance that your question has been already asked before.
2) Cons:
• A “real” person does not means that he is a “real” expert on corrosion..!!
• People is lazy, and think that it’s easier to ask the same question instead of make the effort to do a search, so there could be the same question asked.. asked.. asked..
Based on the above we’ve tried to give our contribute in two ways:
1) We have created a Corrosion Prevention Search Engine, based on Google Custom Search Engine. You can find it in the home page of Corrosionist.com
2) We have created a new Corrosion Forum, Corrosionistforum.com.
Why you should use the Corrosion Search Engine and the Corrosionistfourm?
1) The corrosion search engine is still based on Google, so you’ll have the same “power” of a search made with Google but the search is limited to a selected number of website that are only related to corrosion so your search will be focused on website that are really relevant to Corrosion.
As an example if you search the word corrosion in the first 10 results you’ll find something related to the music group “corrosion of conformity”, and one of a “coming soon” website... still waiting to see it online..
2) The Corrosionistforum is the only forum, apart from the NACE Forum, that is focused only on Corrosion and is at an “entry level” to corrosion while the NACE is more for industry expert.
In the Corrosionist forum we have created forums for the most searched terms like a “galvanic corrosion forum”, “rust removal forum”, “material selection forum”.
This will help visitors to find easily the most relevant information without the need of making a search and avoid, we hope, that the same question will be asked... asked... asked...
The “real” person behind the Corrosionsitforum is a.. Corrosionist.. so we cannot guarantee that we can answer all the questions but at least we can give you an advice on how/where to find the answer..
What dou you think about our tools?
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