Encyclopedia Britannica will premiere a new online guide on Thursday, in hopes that most Web wanderers spend their time sifting through the online equivalent of card catalogs only because they can't find the encyclopedias.
Unlike the exhaustive search engines, the company says, eBlast, won't lead you to every mention of Ozzy Osbourne on the Web -- only the good ones.
"The Web makes millions of pages of new information available, but some of it is questionable, and much of the best of it is hard to find," said Britannica publisher Paul Hoffman. The new guide promises to "separate the kernels of quality information from the chaff and present it in an engaging, contemporary way," noted Hoffman.
