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Internet Searching
Web Research
Check out our new Research Guide Website!!! Learn how to do research projects properly and avoid plagiarism.
- Website Credibility Template
- MS Word Form to evaluate a web site. Right click on the link, save target to disk, then open in Word.
- Note Taking Template
- MS Word Form to take notes from a book, magazine, article, or e-Library source. Right click on the link, save target to disk, then open in Word.
- Web Research Template
- The Credibility Template and Note taking template revised for web sites together. This is an MS Word Form to evaluate a web site and then take notes from that site. Right click on the link, save target to disk, then open in Word.
How To Search
- Bare Bones 101
- So, you're still getting those 1,670,000+ responses to your search queries on the Web, and you're still too busy to do anything about it, like reading lengthy, and sometimes confusing, "help" screens to find out how to improve your searching techniques. Look no further! You can zip through these lessons in no time, any time. They are very short and succinct, each can be read in a few minutes. Feel free to jump in wherever you like, skip what you don't want to read, and come back whenever you need to.
- Search Engine Math
- Forget power searching. Don't worry about learning to do a "Boolean" search. All most people need to know is a little basic "search engine math" in order to improve their results. Come learn how to easily add, subtract and multiply your way into better searches at your favorite search engine. The information below works for nearly all of the major search engines.
- AskScott
- AskScott is a small but high-quality site designed to take you by the hand and point you toward the answers you are looking for. It's run by Scott Nicholson, a librarian at Texas Christian University. Nicholson prominently asks, "What Can I Help You To Find," then directs you along one of eight subject areas. There's also an orientation to searching the web and a more in-depth tutorial.
Search Engines
- Quick Search
- World’s Fastest and most extensive Metasearch engine
- Feeling Lucky? Try Google
- Altavista
- One of the oldest and biggest engines
- Ask
- Search using plain English
- Dogpile
- Submit your search to over a dozen engines with 1 click
- About Canada
- About Canada for the best resources on Canadian history, culture, news and lifestyle
- All the Web
- Find it all
- Hotbot
- Has lots of specialized search directories
- Mamma
- The mother of all search engines – submits to many engines at once
- Yahoo Canada
- Yahoo Canada and worldwide search
- Kartoo
- Kartoo is a meta search engine which presents its results on a map