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K-12 Internet Searching


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General

Meta-search Engines:
Ask.com Metacrawler Family Friendly Search
Hyper-search Engines:
Google
Selected Internet Resources
African-American Resources Books Book Reviews Copyright issues & WWW Plagiarism:Avoidance, Prevention, Detection
E-texts E-Journals Evaluating Web sites Internet & WWW Filters: controlling access and censorship K-12 Resources
News & Current Events: projects and awareness Resources for Kids Resources for Girls & Women Search Engines & Directories
What's New with the Internet & World Wide Web

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Recommended Readings

"A Changing Industry", NewsHour with Jim Lehrer transcript, November 6, 1998 "A Human Behavior Approach to the Future of Search: IS THE SINGLE SEARCH IS DEAD?"
by Amanda Spink, School of Information Sciences & Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
"Advanced Searching: Tricks of the Trade"
Peggy Zorn et al., ONLINE, May 1996
"Beyond 'Cool': Analog Models for Reviewing Digital Resources"
James Rettig, ONLINE, Sept 1996
"Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Needs"
Debbie Abilock, Nueva Library, 12/1/96
"Directories vs. search engines" "Filtering Information on the Internet", Paul Resnick "From E-Sex to E-Commerce: Web Search Changes"
by Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, Dietmar Wolfram, Tefko Saracevic
"How do search engines work?"
Archive April, 2001
"Hypersearching the Web"
Scientific American, June, 1999
"Meta Search Engines"
Nancy Garman, ONLINE, May, 1999
" Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments"
by Amanda Spink, April 1998
"Online Libraries Are Great Research Tools"
John Dvorak, New York Times, 11/3/97    (FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
"Selected results from a large study of Web searching: the Excite study"
by Amanda Spink and Jack L. Xu
"The Dangers and Pitfalls of Communicating with Students or What NOT to do When Communicating with Students on the Internet. "
Judith V. Boettcher, Syllabus Seminar 1998
"The Fight for Eyeballs"
John Sutherland, London Review of Books, Vol 20, No 19, cover date 1 October 1998
"The Internet: Bringing Order from Chaos"
Scientific American Special Report, March, 1997
"The Invisible Web"
Chris Sherman, 06/11/99

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