IT IS comforting to assume that the Net holds the answer to any question, but
there are many gaps in its coverage and even if it’s there somewhere, you could
waste hours browsing before you found what you were after. Wouldn’t it be nice
if there was somewhere you could go and get a professional researcher to help?
Now there is, at FINDOUT (http://www.findout.com). Run free by a large US
consulting firm, the team will field any questions and promise either an answer
or a pointer to useful sources of further information within two working days.
They answered Netropolitan’s test question about why the sky is blue without
breaking into a sweat.
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