Search Engines

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Search engines are very broad, generic tools. They don't search the Web in real-time; hence, there will be some broken links. "Top Searches" are sites with the most hits (clicks) and the most people linking to them. These are some of our favorites.

Google

Google has an "I'm Feeling Lucky" button which searches everything again for different results. Google works better with specific terms -- generic terms bring up a lot of results.

Ask.com

Finds most sites related to your topic.

Ixquick Meta Search

Meta search engines search many different engines at the same time.

When Evaluating Web Resources....

...Consider the following: authorship, publishing body, point of view, bias, referral to other sources, verifiability, currency, how to distinguish propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation.

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