Is This Site Reliable?
What You Should Always Be Looking For…
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Authority
Who created the site?
Is there contact information? |
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Accuracy
Can you trust the information? |
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Objectivity
Does the site inform, persuade, explain, promote or entertain? |
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Currency
Are dates shown and links working? |
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Coverage
Does the content meet your needs? |
Deconstructing a URL:
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http:// hypertext document |
www. World Wide Web |
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html code or format the site was created in |
Tilde (~) indicates a personal web page |
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+ “url-encoded” version of a space |
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Example 1:
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Checking the Ownership of a Site:
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Using either  or 
www.easywhois.com www.centralops.net
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Check out the validity of this website www.martinlutherking.org/library.html ...
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and discover that it is administered by a white supremacy group called Stormfront, Inc.
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Checking What Sites Link to the Site:
Using Google.ca or alltheweb.com, searching for “link:www.nhl.com” will provide names of web pages that have links directing you to the National Hockey League homepage.
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Four sources for identifying hoaxes –
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Click here to access the "Checklist for Evaluating a Website" form.
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