SEARCH THE INTERNET

   MAKE YOUR SEARCHES MORE PRODUCTIVE

 

Probably your searches of the internet have been relatively simple. You have gone to one general type source and gotten an answer to a question. You can get answers to a host of questions for which in the past you used a telephone. The internet can be a source of a wide variety of information, some of it quite specific. As with many sources of information, one must weigh the content of the information. Have you compared information from different sources, or considered how reliable a source is? Have you compared the results of the same search wording but from different "searchers"? For instance were the seach results the same by   www.google.com  as by  www.yahoo.com   as by  www.ask.com ?

 

Possibly the search was hindered by the question you asked. How was it phrased? Did you get so many responses as to make the search very difficult? Did you receive none? Did your choice of “searcher” change the result? Do you know anything about the source of information? Is what you are doing equivalent to taking advice from a stranger? Are there editorial biases?

 

 

Listed below are some websites that may make your search more productive, both in the quality and quantity of the responses and in the wise use of time.

 TUTORIALS ON SEARCHING THE INTERNET

University of California at Berkeley

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

 

University of London Library Research

http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/tutorial/planning/index.asp

 

University of Washington Research 101 Tutorial

http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/

University of South Carolina - Bare Bones 101

http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml

 

CHILDREN'S WEBSITES 

On this website under ORGANIZATIONS, you will find “Children's websites” at which you will find almost sixty children's sites plus five for parents which indicate safety tips on children's use of the internet.

http://www.hopatcong.org/child%20sites10-12.xls