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How to Search the Web

Evaluate Web Pages

Reference Search Engines

The Learning Resource Centre at Algonquin College recommends these subject "starter" websites that act as indexes to the web and give the user access to some of the the best web resources on the web for subject-specific research and reference.

• Welcome to INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
• Librarians' Internet Index
• Internet Public Library:
• St. Ambrose University Library's Best Information on the Net (use the index)
• Virtual Reference Library - Ontario
• Search engines from across the world with Search Engine Colossus
• Portals to the World from the Library of Congress
• Breaking News, Latest News, Current News Stories - RocketNews
• The Educator's Reference Desk: Resource Guides
• BEST ONLINE REFERENCE SITES
• Special Issues - Gary Price's List of Lists

Quick Facts on the Web

• HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!
• Dictionary & Thesaurus - YourDictionary
• Home - OFFSTATS - The University of Auckland Library (Stat Sites of the World)
• Canadian Statistics - Subject Index
• World Newspapers and Magazines
• BRAINTRACK - Online University Directory
• iTools (internet tools index from telephone indexes to page translators)
• canada411.com (Canadian telephone book)
• Facts refdesk.com - Fast Facts