Smart Googling - ENC 1102 - Nolasco (Ybor City) - LibGuides at Hillsborough Community College

Google tips and specialized searching

Here are tips for how to Search on Google.

Google pages for advanced search, videos, and images are linked below:

What about Wikipedia?

Wikipedia... helpful, but not perfect!

On Wikipedia fight is raging over coronavirus disinformation. WIRED. February 9, 2020.
China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits. BBC News. Miller, C. October 5, 2019.

Study shows Wikipedia RX Drug Pages Often Outdated and Inaccurate. Price, Gary. Library Journal June 27, 2014.

Colbert, Stephen. The Word - Wikiality. July 31, 2006. In this 2006 video from ColbertNation, Stephen Colbert changes entries in Wikipedia.

Russia spotted editing Wikipedia page about downed Malaysia Airlines jet. [Malaysia flight M17]. Lowensohn, Josh. The Verge. July 18, 2014.

Cohen, Noah. (2021, November). A war of one's own. WIRED. "Ksenia Coffman made it her mission to fix how Nazi history is told on Wikipedia. She soon faced a blitzkrieg of opposition"

A research article about Wikipedia and disinformation:

Kumar, Srijan, Robert West, and Jure Leskovec. "Disinformation on the Web: Impact, Characteristics, and Detection of Wikipedia Hoaxes." Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web. International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, 2016. [Available at http://cs.umd.edu/~srijan/pubs/hoax-www16.pdf]

Listen to Wikipedia Edits (Hatnote)

Website Evaluation tools

Think carefully about the sources you are finding and using. Here are some tools that can help:

The SIFT Method
Apply the C.R.A.A.P. detection model (click links for tips):

C for Currency

Currency - How recent is the information?

R for Reliability

Reliability - What kind of information is included in the resource? Is it balanced? Does the creator provide references or sources for data or quotations?