Tips for Searching the Internet

• Use Advanced Searching:
  Many search engines allow for advanced searching. This can allow you to limit the results you find by language, year the page was published, or even the domain (.gov, .org, .edu, etc.).
  
  

• Use Boolean Searching:

  

  Example: You want to find information about women in the Civil War. Searching women civil war will retrieve pages that contain either women or civil or war. A better search would be women AND civil AND war...

  And, an even better search would be (civil AND war) AND women

  Yahoo allows full Boolean searching (AND,OR, NOT, and parentheses)
  Google allows OR and uses - instead of NOT.

Once you have found pages relevant to your search, you need to evaluate the information found within them.

Please visit the Evaluating Information module for more information.