What is a website that will give me appropriate and reliable information? REAL test for Websites (Alan November) Read the URL Examine the site’s content.

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What is a website that will give me appropriate and reliable information? REAL test for Websites (Alan November) Read the URL Examine the site’s content and history Ask about the publisher or the author Look at the links

Read the URL

Examine the website’s content and history Check the following: The date at the bottom of the page. Date of copyright or when last published. Webtool - Archive Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/

Ask about the publisher or author Google the author or publisher Webtool: Domain lookup service easywhois (http://www.easywhois.com) Eg. Search Martin Luther King One search result is martinlutherking.org martinlutherking.org is a website hosted by stormfront.org Research stormfront and discover it is white supremacist organisation with a certain bias

Look at the links Search using a number of search engines google, bing… Look beyond the “top hits” Type link: into the search bar followed directly by the URL to gain a list of webpages that link to the website.