“Like” if you “care” or “respect”

LIKE if you respect him; Like if you care for the dog.

Facecrooks

Not novel…

… Google bomb was a thing in 2006

Links

assignment and student wikis and responses

Caveat

• Google is always changing things:
  • ‘~’ no longer works for synonyms as Google does this automatically; you must use quotations to be exact
  • you could get slightly different results depending on whether personalized or not

NEU on WP

Skate fish

Huskies 2001–2002

Penguins

Verifiability

History

Triangulation

• find three credible sources (Valenza 2016)
• consider criteria (Library 2020)
  1. Authority
  2. Purpose
  3. Publication & format
  4. Relevance
  5. Date of publication
  6. Documentation

Remember: SSL…

… tells you if your connection to the site is secure, but does not say whether the content is reliable.

MLK

“A True Historical Examination,” was a top result for “Martin Luther King Jr.” on Google for many years (Rheingold 2009).

Credibility of claims??

• King frequently plagiarized, including his doctoral dissertation.
• King was a member of the communist party.

Your detective work (wikis & responses)

• Jin on tinfoil
• Chris on Obama
• A classic

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You are now a Google expert

Questions?

Consider

You are considering the trustworthiness of a Web page, how might you triangulate its credibility?