With respect to the expectations that we all now have when searching for information, today's search engines have got us used to the bad habit of getting an immediate answer with a single mouse click. And these days anyone who doesn't offer their information with this kind of speed is operating below the normal level. It's no good having to surf through seven levels of a structured website, I want the answer now. If there's anybody out there who can still remember the first search engines, the websites listed were structured in thematic blocks organised like thesauri (arranged in similar ways we organise information and documentation in our museums). Today's search engines don't work like this. These days they search for complete text (across the entire Internet!) and order the files (websites) according to their relevance to the search criteria. The results are not open to appeal. Almost all the institutions that have web contents available on the Internet look for their own documents with Google because it's harder to find them using their own cataloguing systems. We should start looking for a display case to preserve the thesauri and think about retrieving information about museum objects using key words based on reading complete texts and basing the results on relevance. It's already getting late though; we're in the post-Google not the pre-Google era. Finding our objects on the Internet has to be as easy as finding photos on Flickr or Panoramio or videos on YouTube. Anyone who wants to experiment should start with Google Desktop.

The new National Museum of Science and Technology's website will give users access to Industrial Landscapes and Walking Routes , an informative feature that allows users to make a virtual and interactive visit to different tourist routes especially created to make them accessible to the general public. Without leaving your chair, you can transport yourself to Gerri de la Sal , a place where nature, culture, tradition and the know-how of its people are inseparable and a genuine marvel. Virtual reality has been employed to make the process of salt production understandable and other formats, like 360 0 photos and birdsong, are used to make the journey as enjoyable as possible.

The interactive part of the programme offers an across-the-board view of Gerri de la Sal 's culture and heritage using five tourist routes: The Landscape of Salt, Ecology, Territory and Natural Spaces, Audio Landscapes and The Baix Pallars Identity. The last of these allows users to understand the key aspects of salt production which formed the economic basis of the region from the Middle Ages until the last third of the 20 th century.