Evaluating Search Engines and Websites

Which search engine should I use???
Specific search Robot Operated (Most Recent – All sites that include your search terms)

Google Ask.com Yahoo Search Mooter MSN Search

General Searches Directories (Human Selected – More Academic)

Yahoo BUBL Link RDN: Resource Discovery Network (Intute) Librarians' Index to the Internet

Quick Searches Meta searches (Engines that search many search engines and subject directories at the same time)

Ixquick Info.com Kartoo (uses visual mapping) Dogpile

Information taken from the Curtin University of Technology 

How should I evaluate a website???
Evaluate websites using CARRS C – Credibility (Who wrote it? Do they have authority? Correct 				spelling?)

A – Accuracy (Does the information acknowledge all views? Is 						the date of the site current?)

R – Reasonableness (Is the author fair, objective and concerned 						with the truth?)

R – Relevance (Is the information relevant to your topic)

S – Support (Is the information supported by other sites)

Modified version of T. Barcalow's "Evaluating Websites"

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--AV 03:31, 22 October 2007 (UTC)By Alyssa Veltkamp