I see license plates that refer to Minnesota having 10,000 lakes. How many lakes does Minnesota actually have?
We headed straight to Yahoo! and typed “Minnesota how many lakes” into the search box. The search results looked promising, but a bit overwhelming. As you can imagine, quite a few cities, towns, and businesses in Minnesota have the word “lake” in their name. We decided to get more granular in our search. We reversed direction and went back to the top page of Yahoo! and typed “How many lakes are there in Minnesota?” Although sparse, the search results provided the answer. After clicking on the first site, a web page from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, our fishing for the answer was over — we’d found it. The Frequently As
