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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Welcome to EarthTrends, an online collection of information regarding the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. Committed to the principle that accurate information drives responsible decisions by governments and individuals, EarthTrends offers the public a large breadth of statistical, graphic, and analytical data in easily accessible formats.

Much of the environmental information on the internet is fragmented, buried, or only available at a price. EarthTrends gathers data from the world’s leading statistical agencies, along with WRI-generated maps and analyses, into a single database for rapid searching and retrieving. To facilitate the comparison of data from different sources, EarthTrends supplements its content with detailed metadata that reports on research methodologies and evaluates the information’s reliability. All of these resources are made available to the public at no charge.

Our users range from individuals who influence environmental policy—whether in governments, academia, corporations, think-tanks, or other civil society groups—to educators, students, and the public at large. To meet their diverse needs, we present information in multiple formats and differing levels of complexity. We encourage you to explore the data within our ten topic areas and five information tools to fully grasp the capabilities of EarthTrends!

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Images of over 275,000 maps, architectural plans, drawing, photographs, etc. from image collections of the New York Public Library. May be used free of charge for scholarship, research and teaching. Commercial or for profit use is prohibited without prior permission of NYPL. Due to copyright restrictions only images in the public domain (pre-1923) are available in the database.

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Use these tools to search the Web for information, or browse some directories that categorize the Web by topic. Since each search tool will most likely yield different results, try a couple of them out. If you've never used a search engine before, you might want to go through our explanations and tutorials about search engines, or try some additional tutorials at Search Engine Watch. There's also a great interactive tutorial on being an Internet detective that you might like to try.

For a page which brings together many different search engines and other information retrieval devices like encyclopedias, Bible searches and Shakespeare listings, see Ted Slater's Search Engine Collection. Search Engine Watch also has a collection of search engines organized by category.

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The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.

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Welcome to our free search engine tutorial, a short and easy guide to Web searching, search engines and directories. This little crash course will teach you how to explore the Net more efficiently.

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Silobreaker aggregates news, blogs, research, audio, video and other digital media content from global news, shared, user generated and open access sources around the world.

Silobreaker looks at the data it finds like a person does. It recognises things - companies, people, topics, places - and puts them in context. Who are the key players in the Middle East peace process? Which companies have been affected by the M&A activity in the steel industry? Where in the world is that place that was hit by a hurricane? Who are the most prominent car manufacturers in research news about hybrid cars? By filtering out the noise and building up a meaningful picture from the information that matters, Silobreaker enables you to spend more time learning from the web, and less time searching it.

Silobreaker takes this philosophy and applies it to current events, focusing on the topics of business, global issues and science & technology. It takes information from news sites, blogs, academic research and multimedia sources, presenting you with an unparalleled insight into the stories of the day.

Our key focus is to enable you to spend more time finding the information you need, and less time searching for it. That's why, in addition to our unique search technology, Silobreaker employs a team of researchers dedicated to producing fact sheets and biographies on key organisations and individuals, which are combined in our search results.

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