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Google Advanced Sereach

Everyone has to research but what everyone needs is a guide on where to get this research. There four main ways to find the information you need. First one can use a Google or other browser search such as Yahoo, Bing...etc My personnel advice would be to use those tools to get an idea or a topic. Some sites for this are Clusty, Social Issues, and Google Directory. These tools together can help you brainstorm ideas, brows topics, and search topics on Google. If you need to understand the capacity of your topic, using Intute and INFOMINE can help you look into explained academic sites and browse explained research and educational sites by second-tier "robot-selected" results. If need to investigate other or related topics, using Clusty and Ask.com would be perfect. The last step is to filter and narrow your topic, and for this, you can use Clusty, SurfWax, or Wikipedia. Know I know that some people say that Wikipedia is a “bad” site and that it should not be trusted. Well, Wikipedia can hold good and correct information, but make sure to ferity and validate all the information given to you from it because anyone can, at any time, change anything her or she desires. You may be wondering what the sites that give quality results are. Here is list: ipl2, Virtual LRC, and Google Scholar are “authoritative and scholarly sites chosen by a subject expert.”

Sources and Experts, Ask a Librarian, and AllExperts are sites of “personal help from experts.” Google, Technorati, and Ask.com are “sites ranked or tagged as valuable or relevant.” The best way to acquire information is through primary sources such as American Memory, Ready, 'Net, Go!, and Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web.

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Using an advanced search is much more efficient then using a standard search. Take a look at the many options an advanced search provides:

It is also best to use more recent and still validated information because something might be discovered recently or more recently than the last time your other resources have been updated, and information would either be missing, incomplete, and/or incorrect.

Current – Occurring in or belonging to the present time

Relevant – Having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue

Accurate – Conforming exactly, almost exactly to fact, or to a standard or performing with total accuracy

Credible – Appearing to merit belief or acceptance

Appropriate – Suitable for a particular person, place or condition etc

Bias – Influence in an unfair way