How to Evaluate Web Pages

Bibliography on evaluating web information Virginia Tech University	Evaluating Quality on the Net Babson College	Evaluating Web Sources: Tutorials and articles to teach users how to judge information on the Web LOEX
Information Literacy: Grammar of the Internet November Learning	The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources New Mexico State University	Lessons Learned: Exemplary Practices in Teaching Web Evaluation New Mexico State University	Resource Selection and Information Evaluationn Archived March 23, 2005 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Selection criteria found via the literature review Selection criteria for quality controlled information gateways Work Package 3 of Telematics for Research project DESIRE (RE 1004)
Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources UCLA College Library	Tips for Developing Effective Web-Based Library Instruction Teaching Methods Committee ACRL Instruction Session	Using Primary Sources on the Web RUSA History Section

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Recommended Readings

Search Engines Ready to Learn MIT Technology Review Stephen Aquino April 24, 2001	"Yahoo! and the Abdication of Judgment" Laura B. Cohen. American Libraries January 2001: 60-62	"Spelling and Searching the Internet: An Overlooked Problem" Edward Proctor Journal of Academic Librarianship, September-October, 2002: 297-305	"Boolean Operators and the Naïve End-User" Edward Proctor, ONLINE, July/August, 2002: 34-38
"Beyond 'Cool': Analog Models for Reviewing Digital Resources" James Rettig, ONLINE Sept 1996	Better search results than Google? Next-generation sites help narrow Internet searches CNN Technology January 5, 2004	In search of the deep Web Alex Wright Salon.com March 9, 2004	What Google Teaches Us that Has Nothing to Do with Searching Gary Price Searcher November/December 2003	"A Human Behavior Approach to the Future of Search: IS THE SINGLE SEARCH IS DEAD?" Amanda Spink (PDF)
"Advanced Searching: Tricks of the Trade" Peggy Zorn et al., ONLINE, May 1996	"Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs" Debbie Abilock, Nueva Library, 12/1/96	"Directories vs. search engines"	"Evaluating Web Sites" Lynne Freeman, Meyer Library
"From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes" Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, Dietmar Wolfram, Tefko Saracevic	Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments Amanda Spink D-Lib Magazine	"Online Libraries Are Great Research Tools"   New York Times (Free Registration Required)	"Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study" Amanda Spink & Jack L. Xu Information Research

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Popularity Search Engines

Google	Google Scholar	About Google Scholar	Google Watch	Soople Google made simple
SearchMil.com "Over 1 million military pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity"

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Clustering Search Engines

CMU trio develops Internet search tool that sorts results in helpful clusters	Clustering Search Engines Teacher Librarian Vol 31, No 1, Oct 2003	Clustering With Search Engines Tara Calishain Law Library Resource Xchange	Clusty (Beta)	iBoogie
KillerInfo	Vivisimo

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Image Search Engines

Ditto.com

Google Image Search

Graphics, Images, Photographs & Pictures

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Search Inside the Book

Search Inside the Book FAQ Amazon.com	How It Works Amazon.com	The Best Search Idea Since Google Slate [Pro]	Amazon Re-Ranks Intellectuals Slate [Con]	The Great Library of Amazonia Wired December, 2003
Amazon's 'Search Inside the Book' LISnews.com [Collaborative Blog]	"Search Inside the Book" - and scare an awful lot of people! Blogcritics.org	Amazon's New Feature a Service or a Scam? Audio file NPR	A Librarian Says Students Have More Data Than They Know What to Do With Chronicle of Higher Education January 23, 2003	Google Book "Search the full text of books (and discover new ones)"

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Evaluated Directories & Portals

BUBL LINK / 5:15 Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas (UK)

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

Internet Scout Project

Librarian's Internet Index

Selected Internet Resources

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Invisible, Hidden or Deep Web

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Old & Disappeared Web Pages & Listserv Postings

Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine) 1996 -

Cached Links Google N.D.

Google Groups Listservs, UseNet, NewsGroups 1981 -

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Features & Updates

Search Engine Showdown Features Chart	Search Engine Watch	Internet Search Engine Update ONLINE Greg R. Notess	Searchengineblog.com	Search Engine Guide Updated daily
Search Engine News Pandia Search Central	MIT Technology Review

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