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The Internet

Analysis of a URL

The Web & Research

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Evaluating Web Sources

Citing Web Sources

Further Resources

Quiz

Finding Information on the Web

Hints for Using Search and Metasearch Engines

  • Different search engines will give you different results. Try more than one!
  • Use + in front of a word or phrase that must be included in your results, or a - in front of words that you don't want to be in your results.
  • If you are looking for a specific phrase, enclose it in quotation marks ("").

Search Format Examples

  • +"Chesapeake bay" +pollution
  • +oriole -baseball
  • "booksian literature"

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