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Sunny Jackson

Education

• Control F
• jump directly to the word or phrase
• think of how the author would phrase it
• To learn the definition of a word, just type “Define,” then the word.
• find a second corroborating source
• Never single-source anything.
• Web sites can sometimes publish false information
• find details about the source
• people duplicate content all the time
• To determine the original source of the content, you can look at the date it was written
• When authors edit an article, that changes the posting date.
• Trustworthy websites typically have an “errata column” or something like it where mistakes or corrections are posted.
• You’ll also see “Updates” at the top of articles, where clarifications are published, which shows the Web site’s intention of providing the most accurate information.
• When you want to know what other sites are saying about the site you’re searching, type in “Link: www.yourwebsitename.com” and you’ll see all the posts that mention that site.
• You can use Google to do calculations
• related searches
• dictionary
• helpful links

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Toby Siguenza

seaching google whois

• FIND THE SOURCE. Russell knows first-hand that Web sites can sometimes publish false information. Though we all know how to find contact information for an organization, confirm the phone number, look for the author’s names and trustworthy hallmarks like logos, Russell says “the bad guys know that too. They’re very good at mimicking credible sources of information.” On the site Who.is, searchers can find details about the source: where it’s located, when it was established, and the IP address.
• lowing up on a debatable article
• To those who wonder if Google is making us stupid, Russell has a pithy response: “Plato said that about books.”

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