Before You SEARCH, Think about WHAT You are SEARCHING FOR

Even if you are an Internet wizard, this site  will assist you in identifying Internet search tools that help you:

• Find a topic, understand the scope of a topic, investigate alternative or related topics, or refine and narrow a topic.
• Identify quality results (authoritative and scholarly sites chosen by a subject expert or sites ranked or tagged as valuable or relevant).
• Conduct research in a specific discipline.
• Do research based upon the timeliness of information.
• Identify facts or find opinions and perspectives.
• Look for specific media.

For more information on how to formulate your searches, limiting your results using special search commands, and numerous special search engines, look at the Guidebook to Internet Searching.

Register on the MakeUseof site (http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/guide-internet-searching) to download or download directly (http://bit.ly/5mA8Um)

References:

Abilock, Debbie. "Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need." NoodleTools. N.p., 22 July 2012. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html.

Sherwin, Dean. Guidebook to Internet Searching. MakeUseOf, 2010. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://manuals.makeuseof.com.s3.amazonaws.com/MakeUseOf.com_-_Searching.pdf>.