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Always remember to evaluate the credibility and authority of Internet sources. Use these resources to help you: Net Questions, URL Clues, and 10 C's for Evaluating Internet Sources. For tips on how to search the Internet, check out these resources: Search Engine Showdown: Basic Search Strategies and Search Engine Math. You can search the Internet using a directories, search engines, or other resources such as digital library collections. Directories hierarchically organize websites similar to how an index organizes the contents of a book. Search engines search and index a variety of information including websites, wikis, documents, and more. Search engines are easy to use with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) and phrase searching. Be sure to search multiple search engines because each one indexes different and varying amounts of the web.
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