A quick tutorial on searching and evaluating Internet resources

Do you know the difference between Yahoo and AltaVista? Do all your friends and students know? If no, this tutorial is for you. It explains some basic concepts, understanding which makes life on the Internet much easier. Now that the Internet is moving into the general knowledge of everybody and is taught in schools, we need to find some general, underlying ideas of how to deal with it. Wiring schools, as is happening now throughout the United States and other countries, is not enough. Teachers and students must be trained. This tutorial covers two small but important aspects of that training. The first part considers searching on the Internet; the second deals with quality and authority of information found on the Internet. It is a common mistake to assume that high technology guarantees high quality. Just because something is on the Web does not necessarily mean it is true.