Using & Evaluating electronic Resources. The World Wide Web: Searching and Evaluating The World Wide Web The World Wide Web is a subset of the Internet.
World Wide Web search engines are basically electronic indexes of web sites and where the skills presented in the section Boolean Online Searching apply. The quality, accuracy, and reliability of sources on the WWW varies tremendously. Unlike academic level materials located using library catalogs and online databases, most material on the WWW has not gone through a peer-review or evaluation process. Internet Detective. Evaluation Criteria from "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources"