What is the Internet? Search Engines Research Databases & Resources

How do I find useful information on the Internet?

Due to the vast and uncentralized nature of the World Wide Web, the information as a whole has no meaningful organizational structure.

• Use search engines, such as Google Scholar, to search the Internet. An Internet search will generally retrieve a large number of hits ranked by relevancy. You can then sift through the most relevant sites for useful and reliable information.
• Putting quotes around a phrase will retrieve items where those words appear together in exact order. more tips
• It is easy to limit a Google search to Government publications (.gov) or organizational web sites (.org) by typing site: followed by the domain.
• Web searches are not the same as searches in Research Databases.