The Internet is a terrific resource. It contains hundreds of web sites dedicated to thousands of topics. With so many sites, it is easy to get lost. Knowing the types of search tools available and mastering some general search tips can make your search more profitable.

Use caution when searching the web, though. Anybody with access to the Internet can post web sites about topics that interest them. These sites are not always accurate. Therefore, it also is a good idea to learn how to evaluate web sites. The Purdue University Library system's Core+ Tutorial provides helpful guidelines for evaluating sources. Purdue's OWL has a mini-tutorial on evaluating sources that includes evaluating Internet sources. There's also a great interactive tutorial on being an Internet detective on another site that you can visit if you want to work more on evaluating Internet sources.

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There is a lot of information on the Internet, including a lot of resources about writing. However, sometimes it's hard to find what you're looking for. Use the resources in this section to help you learn more about searching the Internet for information and use our collections of writing-related resources for more information about writing. If you're a student (or an instructor) in Introductory Composition at Purdue (ICaP), you can find lots of resources on their web pages as well.

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This category contains sites with help articles and tutorials pertaining to the Internet.

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This section of Search Engine Watch contains a collection of links relating to different search engine subjects.

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Infinisource: Search Engine Directory

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Find search engines from countries around the world with Search Engine Colossus - International Directory of Search Engines. Search engines of ...

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These sites do not crawl the web themselves to build an index. Instead they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then unified. They may either present results from each engine one after the other (parallel search), or blend them, removing duplicates.

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Pay-Per-Click advertising companies that do not confine their services to any one of the subcategories. In general, these are the leaders of the Pay-Per-Click industry.

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Sites which offer a number of search tools on one page. Each search tool can be accessed from its own search box or via a singe search box by radio buttons, drop-down list or other method. Resources may include general search engines, directories, dictionaries, encyclopedias or other general reference resources.

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Open Directory - Computers: Internet: FAQs, Help, and Tutorials: FAQs

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