Go Right to the Source

Even when "traditional" searches don't return the results you need, you still may be able to find the desired documents, says Web expert Barbara G. Friedman. "Thinking ahead," says the author of Web Search Savvy: Strategies and Shortcuts for Online Research (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004), 43, "allows you to 'skip the middleman,' to pass up the search engine altogether and go straight to the sites that hold the information you want."