The basics of Internet search

1. Assessment of the reliability of information sources

1.1. Verification of authorship and reputation

1.2. Analysis of the content of an article or page

1.3. Comparison with other sources

2. Basic tools for information retrieval

2.1. Search Engines

2.1.1. Russian: Yandex, Mail.ru, Rumbler

2.1.2. International: Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask, MSN

2.2. Specialized databases and catalogs

2.2.1. Google Scholar, PubMed and JSTOR

2.3. Social networks and forums

2.3.1. Social networks: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc.

2.3.2. Forumes: Reddit, Stack Overflow

3. Tips for searching the Internet

3.1. 1. Simplify the query: remove unnecessary words from the query, make it concise and clear

3.2. 2. Clarifying the Request

3.3. 3. Using the most relevant words (the most suitable and popular words)

3.4. 4. Using synonyms

4. The reasons why it is not possible to find information on the Internet:

4.1. Incorrect request statement.

4.2. Your query is not online (either you will not find anything, or you will only find similar queries)

5. Search Operators

5.1. Quotation marks (""): Use quotation marks to find the exact phrase

5.2. Minus (-): Excludes words from the search. For example, the query "search engines -Google" will return results that do not contain the word "Google"

5.3. Site: Restricts the search to a specific site. For example, "algorithms site:wikipedia.org " will return pages from the Wikipedia site

5.4. Asterisk : Used as a wildcard for unknown or variable words. For example, "best * to search for" will return results with different word variants in place of the asterisk

5.5. OR: Allows you to search for pages containing one of several words. For example, the query "algorithms OR methods" will return pages containing either "algorithms" or "methods"