Evaluating Web Resources With Search Engines

Killmer (2002), in his article “So much information, so little time: Evaluating Web resources

with search engines”, states, “An abundance of search engines tools can be used to retrieve information

from the World Wide Web. Search Engine Watch (2001) reports that more than 75 search engine tools are

available and provide links to many relevant sources” (P 21). However, in using search engines on the

web to retrieve information, one must be cognizant of the many deleterious situations one can

encounter with the web page and its search engine. For instance, search engines can retrieve

pages out of context, and one must try to return to the “home page” to determine the source of

information. Another problem with search engines is getting the information filtered. In other

words, it may take a number of “hits” before one reaches the relevant information. The source of

information is difficult to determine because the authorship of the...