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Tutorial 2—It's Your Health

How do you find a needle in a haystack?

Suppose you want to find reliable information about heart attacks. Where would you begin? You could try a generic search engine [http://www.healthinfoiowa.org/tutorials/glossary.html#search].

For example, try searching for information on heart attacks in AltaVista [http://www.altavista.com]. (Hint: Use a web-savvy technique and put quotation marks around the phrase "heart attack"):

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Your search returns over 200,000 pages! Some of these are bound to be good, but do you want to sort through all of this?

Sometimes it makes more sense to start your search for information at a more focused, quality-filtered website.


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Updated: 30 July 2001