Jewish Journal  The Internet: Superhighway or Dating Tool?  by
Teresa Strasser  December 7, 2000 | 7:00 pm  It used to be that
you had to take a guy's word for it. Now, all you need is a good
search engine.  Among the Internet's many uses, following your
stocks, ordering books, doing research, you can also find out if
that guy you met at a party last night really does direct the
show "Felicity."  That's how it started for me, how the
Information Superhighway became a dating tool. I just had to
check one little fact that seemed fishy. The next thing I knew,
I was reading reviews of this guy's short film (excellent, I
might add), learning where he went to school and that he did,
indeed, direct episodic television.  I didn't stop there. At the
time, I was working at a job that subscribed to the Cadillac of
search engines, a little slice of digital paradise called Lexis-
Nexis. This is perhaps the most advanced search engine
available, used by lawyers and reporters and boasting news
stories from every source, larg