The information age

Use your favorite search engine to look for Internet sources on privacy and security on the Internet.

Use EBSCOhost’s Academic Search Premier database to do a Basic Search for articles on privacy and security on the Internet.

Including the evaluative criteria described in the assigned reading for Module 2 (see “Evaluating Web Pages: Questions to Consider” http://guides.library.cornell.edu/evaluating_Web_pages) and “Web Evaluation Criteria” http://lib.nmsu.edu/depts/reference/documents/WebEvaluationCriteria.pdf), write a 500-word essay describing your assessment of the accuracy, authority, objectivity, and currency you found in each of your search results. Focus on why search engines and databases produce different types of results; explain why there are differences in the results you obtained from each of the two types of search tools.