How to Find What You Want on the Internet
(beginners and advanced)
The basics
How to Search the World Wide Web: A Tutorial for Beginners and Non-Experts   A tutorial to add to your knowledge and understanding of the search process and to help improve your skills in conducting searches -- from the Middletown, RI Public Library. Also gives details on how to use many search engines. Lots of helpful information!
BARE BONES 101   A basic tutorial on searching the web, designed to get you started in the right direction with a minimum of time and effort -- from The University of South Carolina, Beaufort.
Surf the Web   How the Web Works -- from LearnTheNet.com.
Learn to Search the Web   This is a free, self-paced tutorial that contains, in four lessons, information about the Web, explanations about how information is collected and organized and tips for how to find things on the Internet -- from SeniorNet, an organization of computer-using adults, age 50 and older.
Beyond the basics
Beyond General World Wide Web Searching  An outstanding list of Search Engines, Meta-Search Engines, databases and Subject Directories with an excellent tutorial to help both beginners and experienced web users -- from the University of California, Berkeley Teaching Library. See the excellent discussion of the "Invisible Web".
Search The Internet    Basic Internet, Research Guides, Search Engines, Subject Directories & The Deep Web -- from the State University of New York at Albany.
Searching the World Wide Web   Slanted toward research for writing, it includes a useful section on evaluating sources -- from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab.
A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW   A tutorial guide to conducting research on the World Wide Web for first year composition students -- from St Louis University.
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