Anatomy of a URL
The last & most significant component of the URL that provides you with a clue about the purpose or audience of a website.
What is Domain?
A special program on the internet that allows the user to type in keywords to locate online material that contains those words or topics.
What is a search engine?
An acronym and test used to help students evaluate a website.
What is CRAAP?
When searching for the purpose of a website, users can open this page for information?
What is the "About Us" page?
Prejudice in favor of, or against something (or someone).
What is bias?
Sites using this domain name are schools ranging from kindergarten to higher education.
What is .edu?
A popular search engine that may or may not provide unbiased reliable information for academic research>
What is Google?
When the information provided closely aligns with your research topic or answers your research question.
What is relevance?
A list that provides a point of origin or primary reference used in an article.
What are sources?
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
The information provided by commercial interests use this domain suffix?
What is .com?
A search engine for students that provides high-quality resources evaluated & approved by educators, librarians, & research experts.
What is Sweetsearch.com?
When the author or publisher reveals the reason for creating the website?
What is the purpose?
Sensational headlines and images designed to entice viewers to open a link on a webpage.
What is click-bait?
A website that uses humor, ridicule, and exaggeration to expose & criticize the actions of others, especially in the context of contemporary politics or current controversial topics.
What is satire?
If you come across a site with this domain name, then you are viewing a federal government site.
What is .gov?
Encyclopedia Britannica Online, World Book Encyclopedia Online, & Opposing Viewpoints in Context are examples of this high-quality resource.
What is a research database?
When a website has reliable information and an editor who can verify the authenticity, the website demonstrates this.
What is accuracy?
Unbelievable images presented without photo credits are possible examples of this.
What is photoshop?
An online advertisement created to look like authentic editorial content on a website.
What is "sponsored content"?
Organizations such as the American Red Cross or PBS, traditionally nonprofit organizations, use this domain name?
What is .org?
This free online encyclopedia created by anonymous authors is not an acceptable resource for high school and college-level research.
What is Wikipedia?
An up-to-date website that may contain hyperlinks, which open to the newest information, demonstrates this.
What is currency?
These annoying, intrusive, and nonrelevant announcements on low-quality websites are called this.
What are ads?
With the proliferation of fake news in the media, users can verify the accuracy of these articles by using these sources.
What are fact-checking websites?