Searching The Internet

We all know you will use Internet sources for your projects.  Depending on your faculty, they may or may not except Internet sources, but you can always look so here are some tips for the searching.

1. Use the Internet to find answers to specific and easily verifiable questions
How old is Bill Clinton?

2. Triangulate your answers
   If one web site tells you he’s four.  Try again; you probably found a baby democrat.

3. Use it to start feeling about on your topic.  Look for keywords.

   Bill Clinton uh wasn't’t he involved in the white water scandal, Monica Lewinski, Kosovo, Iraq.

    

4. Vary your search engines
   • All search engines work differently.  They will bring up different pages for the same keywords. 
   • Click here to see algorithms at work.

5. Know how to modify your search with Boolean operators and suffixes
   • For example:
     • .edu clauses bring up educational sites
     • .gov: government sites
     • .jpg: images in jpg format
     • .uk: sites in U.K.
     • define: "word" will define a word for you in Google

   Warning: .org is not reserved for the use of nonprofits on the web. Anyone can get a .org site.

6. Check Out Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo' The Web Library for lists of online academic resources that are either free or available at a low cost.

   Scroll to the bottom of the site and browse by chapters in the book.

7. Use the key combo "control f" to find what you are looking for. It makes it easier to find exactly what you need in a long page of text.

   Usually the find dialog box will look like this:(insert image)