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The first - and perhaps most important - step in dealing effectively with information overload is for users to achieve a better understanding of the Internet as an information resource. Realistic expectations about information availability serve to reduce stress and its companion phenomena disappointment and frustration. (Carlson, 2003). The tremendous growth in the price-performance of networking and storage has fueled the explosive growth of the web. The amount of information easily accessible from the desktop has dramatically increased by several orders of magnitude in the last few years. Users of the web are being confronted with the consequent information overload problem. It can be exceedingly difficult to locate resources that are both high-quality and relevant to their information needs. Traditional automated methods for locating information are easily overwhelmed by low-quality and unrelated content. Thus, the second generation of search engines will have to have effective methods for focusing on the most authoritative among these documents.