Out of the hundreds of millions of websites that you can visit for information or research, which ones can you trust? Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation, says that only one percent of all searches on Google go beyond the first page. Good grief. When I google myself, I find at least 45 pages about me; if someone were to stop at the first page, they would never get to the juicy material.

Don’t join the majority here. Lots of great information may be on page three or page thirty of a Google search. Make the effort to read farther.

Also websites that are sponsored by the government and end in .gov or by universities, ending in .edu, are generally considered more reputable and less biased than a.com site or a blog, but use your own judgment with individual sites.

The jury is out on Wikipedia, although it tends to have slightly more errors than Britannica, but both encyclopedias make mistakes. That’s why if you use either one, especially Wikipedia, always use it as a secondary source. Make sure that your original material comes from another site.

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