Is Google The Fastest Way To Find Information?

Is the internet really the quickest way to access facts - and get them right?
Ros Taylor, Oliver Burkeman and Stephen Moss at the Guardian Unlimited take Google to a serious and very relevant challenge. They put Google to the test against more old-fashioned methods. They set out six challenging questions and they try to answer them while timing how much it takes to answer each one while using as a search tool the phone, Google, and a library.