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Making sense of the internet

Sites to help evaluate sites

Citing Online Resources Information UC Santa Barbara
Evaluating Websites: Lesley University Library
Bare Bones: Internet search tutorial: USC Beaufort
Internet Public Library

Academic Research

Directories of the Best Sites

dmoz Open Directory	Librarians Index
ResearchBuzz	INFOMINE
Find Articles

Commercial Directories

Looksmart	Google Directory
Snap	Yahoo

Directory Information Sites

555-1212	AT&T AnyWho
800 Number Directory	Infospace
International Directory	Lycos

Government Resources

State of Minnesota	Google Uncle Sam
The White House	Supreme Court
World Fact Book	U. S. Senate U. S. House

Meta Search Engines

Search several search engines simultaneously

Chubba	Dogpile
Ixquick	MetaCrawler

Popular Search Engines

AlltheWeb	Ask.com
Hotbot	Alta Vista
Gigablast	Google
Lycos

The Invisible Web

Information Stored in Databases not searchable by Search Engines