Internet Evaluations and Search Strategies

START WITH THESE

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
A Teaching Library Internet Workshop project of U. Cal. Berkley.  Introduction to the WWW, search engines and their strategies, how to plan your search on the WWW, and beyond General Web Searching.  Outstanding site!

WebHound
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/webhound/index.html
Excellent "course in a box" for basic and advanced principles of evaluating and searching the Web.  Includes a web "scavenger hunt."  Written by the Maricopa Center for Learning and INstruction of Maricopa Community Colleges, Phoenix, AZ.   Also check out the home page for the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ for many good Internet teaching and learning topics.  Loaded with Information!

BUT DON'T MISS THESE

Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html
U. of South Carolina Beaufort Library. Short, succinct lessons you can cover in a few minutes.

Evaluating Web Sites for Educational Uses: Bibliography and Checklist
http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-49.html
Written by a librarian, this is a useful bibliography of electronic and print articles on evaluating web sites.  Also included is a 17-point checklist for making your own evaluations.

Researching Companies on the Internet
http://home.sprintmail.com/~debflanagan/index.html
A personal page with an excellent introductory tutorial that covers all the basics.

Search Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
Everything you could possibly want to know about search engines by MecklerMedia of IBM.   Facts and fun, and financial and status reports on the leading search engines.   Excellent tutorial on how search engines index sites ( "A Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines.")  Highly recommended site.

Search Engines
http://deadlock.com/promote/search-engines/
Written by Jim Rhodes of Deadlock.com.  Clear, elementary introduction to the topics but with a business spin for writers of web pages.  "How to Use Key Words" explains how the choice of key words plus their position in document files determine whether or not a web site will be found in most search engines.  Good discussion of strong and weak key words.  Excellent discussion of Yahoo!.  Highly recommended.

Search Engines: What they Are, How They Work, and Practical Suggestions for Getting the Most Out of Them
http://webreference.com/content/search/
From Search Engine Watch.  How search engines work, which search engine to use and when, and getting the most out of search engines and related Internet tools.  A very useful site.

Searching the Internet
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~tab/search6.html
Ohio State University site.  Features, "The Spider's Apprentice" web search tutorial.  Many handy URL's for information about searching the Internet.   Direct links to all the standard search engines, and four popular meta-engines (DogPile, Inference Find, Meta-Crawler, and C/Net).

Teacher/Pathfinder Home: Search Page: Tips for Effective Searches
http://teacherpathfinder.org/searchtips.html
Covers Search Tips, Advanced Searching (Tricks of the Trade), and the Web Search Cheat Sheet.  Comprehensive and easy to follow.

Web Search Cheat Sheet
http://www.colosys.net/search/
Covers basic and advanced search strategies for AltaVista, Excite, Yahoo, Magellan, InfoSeek, Lycos, and WebCrawler.

World Wide Web Page Evaluation Form
http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/project/midlinknc/tutorial/WWW.eval.html
Created by Ligon Middle School in NC, and Midlink Magazine.  An excellent, clear, comprehensive form.

Writing for the Web: A Primer for Librarians
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/webdocs.html
Written by Eric Schnell, Head, Automation Services at the Prior Health Sciences Library at The Ohio State University.  A general introduction to Web resource creation.   Newer technologies are briefly described and references to other resources are provided.  An interactive glossary of terms associated with the Web is also included.