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Research Process: A Step-by-Step Guide: 2c. Find Websites

This guide will help you understand the research process that you need to go through for your assignments.

Tip!

Remember to evaluate websites for reliability and accuracy before you use them in your research assignments.

Search Google Books

Google Book Search

Search Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides an easy way to search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and resources.

Google Scholar Search

What is a search engine?

Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. A search engine is really a general class of programs, however, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web.

Google's Advance Search

Use Google's or any other search engines' Advance Search feature to broaden or narrow a search.

Google Advance Search

Other Search Engines

 

All the Web (powered by Yahoo)

AltaVista

Ask (formerly Ask Jeeves)

Bing  (owned by Microsoft)

Fagan Finder

GoogleHotbot
Internet Public Library

Lycos (powered by Ask.com)

Wisenut      

 
Meta Search Engines

Beaucoup!

Dogpile

Surfwax

WebCrawler