“Information is often published on the Web which no serious publisher would touch.”

1. “Information is often published on the Web which no serious publisher would touch.” Craig Branham, Saint Louis University

2. “…a generation of intellectual sluggards incapable of moving beyond the Internet” [is] being produced at universities.” Michael Gorman, former president of the American Library Association

3. “I always go straight to Google.” 7th Grade Honors Student

4. Geographical limited scope Accoona, China/US Alleba, Philippines Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ Araby, Middle East Baidu, China Daum, Korea Guruji.com, India Goo (search engine), Japan Miner.hu, Hungary Najdi.si, Slovenia Naver, Korea Onkosh, Middle East Rambler, Russia Rediff, India SAPO, Portugal Search.ch, Switzerland Sesam, Norway, Sweden Walla!, Israel Yandex, Russia General Alexa Internet Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) Baidu (Chinese) Exalead (French) Gigablast Google Live Search (formerly MSN Search) Sogou (Chinese) Sohu (Chinese) Wikia Search Yahoo! Search

5. Google is probably the largest Search Engine Yahoo has over 20 billion “web objects” in its database Ask.com has access to 2 billion “web objects”

6. About 80% of the web pages in a search engine’s database exits only in that database. So, get a second opinion!

7. Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important". From Wikipedia, Search Term: Page Rank

8. Results 1 - 10 of about 68,200,000 for shakespeare [definition]. (0.07 seconds)  Results 1 - 10 of about 26,700,000 for scientific method [definition]. (0.07 seconds)  Results 1 - 10 of about 20,000,000 for american revolution [definition]. (0.12 seconds)  Results 1 - 10 of about 8,450,000 for periodic table [definition]. (0.13 seconds)  Results 1 - 10 of about 778,000 for humanchromosomes. (0.17 seconds)  Results 1 - 10 of about 45,800,000 for americanidol. (0.10 seconds)  Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 151 for kevin stiegelmaier. (0.32 seconds) 

9. “It says right up front that ANYONE can edit it, which includes dopes, idiots, and liars. In other words, worth a look, but all taken with a grain of salt.” Username “Jerseyrich” in online discussion about using Wikipedia for information.

10. “For god’s sake, you’re in college; don’t cite the encyclopedia.” Jimmy Wales Founder, Wikipedia

12. Jenny Fry, Oxford Research Institute “You cannot say children are intellectually lazy because they are using the Internet when academics are using search engines in their research," she said. "The difference is that they have more experience of being critical about what is retrieved and whether it is authoritative. Children need to be told how to use the Internet in a critical and appropriate way."

13. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ • http://www.dhmo.org/ • http://www.thepregnancytester.com/ • http://petalgae.com/

17. Work Cited 1) Branham, Craig. St Louis University “A Student’s Guide to Research With the WWW”. www.slu.edu/departments/english/research • Q.U.I.C.K. “The Quality Information Checklist”. www.quick.ork.uk/menu.htm • Terdiman, Daniel. “Study: Wikipedia as Accurate as Britannica”. www.news.cnet.com, December 15, 2005. 4) U.C. Berkeley Library. “Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial”. www.lib.berkeley.edu/teachinglib/Guides/Internet/SearchEngines.html 5) Wikipedia. Search Term: “Search Engines”. www.wikipedia.com, Last modified June 5, 2008 6) Young, Jeffrey R. “Wikipedia Founder Discourages Academic Uses of His Creation”. http://chronicle.com, June 12, 2006.