Find Web Sites

INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS

Internet Search Engines

	Google
	_{^{A very large and popular search engine that allows you to search the web, groups, images, directories and news. For the majority of searches, the best place to start. Partial Boolean.}}
	Yahoo!
	_{^{The oldest of all the engines and directories. Powered by Google. So why use it? Consider Yahoo anytime you want a human-reviewed web site. Also Yahoo acquired Inktomi, a crawler-based engine that rivals Google.}}
	Ask.com
	_{^{Previously Teoma, Ask.com is a crawler-based search engine. It has a smaller index than Google. Features subject specific ranking. Suggests terms within results to refine the search.}}
	Alta Vista
	_{^{Large, but smaller than Google, or AllTheWeb. Full Boolean searching and powerful Searching within results using sort by box in Advanced Search. Gives access to web, images, MP3/Audio, video, directory, news. Advanced Search allows user to turn off/on a great variety of files.}}
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Specialized Search Engines

	Google Scholar
	_{^{Search scholarly sites.}}
	Scirus: for scientific information only
	_{^{Developed by Elsevier Science, Scirus enables scientists, students and anyone searching for scientific information to chart and pinpoint data, locate university sites, and find reports and articles in a clutter-free, user-friendly and efficient manner.}}
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	Evaluating the validity of information obtained from a web site, newspaper article, book and everything else in between is one of the most difficult tasks to perform. You need to ask yourself a variety of questions for which you often have no answers. Don’t despair. There are number of very good Internet resources that will help you look for the crucial elements to evaluate a site (And don’t forget the Writing Lab here on campus where you can talk to some real people):

Internet Resources for Evaluating Web Sites
	The Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley
	The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources, New Mexico State University
	Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources, UCLA College Library
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