Outstanding Online Resources

Information Literacy

Select a search engine based on what you're looking for.

Answer to a question	Narrowing down a subject (category or directory search)
Ask Jeeves http://ask.com	Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com Yahooligans (for kids) http://www.yahooligans.com Google.com (Directory link) http://www.google.com
Information on a specific topic	Clustered results
Google.com http://google.com Use Advanced Search to narrow your search and get more useful hits; Language Tool to translate web sites, phrases, phrases.	Clusty.com or Vivisimo.com http://clusty.com or http://vivisimo.com When you're first researching a topic, it may be helpful to get your results in clusters or subtopic groupings.

The Research Cycle - written by Jamie McKenzie
http://www.questioning.org/rcycle.html

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