Acknowledgments xi 1 Introduction: How You Can Harness the Power of Online Research--Why You Should Improve Your Online Researching Skills 1 2 Finding a Mysterious Location Somewhere in the World: How to Use Multiple Information Sources to Zero In on a Resource 11 3 Do Lake in Africa Sometimes Explode? How to Focus Your Search with "site:" and Using Specialized Terms 27 4 Things You Notice: While Traveling: How and When to Switch Search Modes to Find Information 39 5 Is That Plant Poisonous or Not? How to Find Highly Localized and Domain-Specific Information 53 6 What's the Most Likely Way You'll Die? How to Be Explicit about What You're Searching to Find (and Why That Matters) 67 7 When Would You Want to Read the Italian Wikipedia? How to Look for Information from Other Languages in Wikipedia and Other Sources 81 8 Why Are the Coasts So Different? How to Use Online Maps Resources to Answer Broad Geographic Questions 95 9 Mysterious Mission Stars: How to Read Snippets in the Search Results and Pay Attention to Search Details 107 10 When Was Oil First Discovered in California? How to Discover and Work Through Multiple Competing Claims in Online Resources 125 11 Can You Die from Apoplexy or Rose Catarrh? How to Find (and Use) Old, Sometimes-Archaic or Obsolete Terminology 137 12 Wheat's That Wreck Just Offshore? How to Find Archival Imagery and Use Metadata Photographs 151 13 Do Flies Have the Pattern of a Spider on Their Wings? How to Check the Credibility of a Resource You've Found 165 14 What's the Connection between "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the General Who Burned the White House? How to Search for Vaguely Remembered Connections between Ideas 179 15 What Causes the Barren Zones around Some Plants? How to Know When You Should Go Offline and Do Research in the Real World 197 16 Is Abyssinia the Same as Eritrea? How to Find Additional Context Information for Your Research 221 17 The Mystery of the Parrotfish, or Where Does That White Sand Really Come From? How to Triangulate Multiple Sources to Find a Definitive Answer 239 18 Did Perry Ever Visit the Island of Delos? How to Follow a Long Chain of References to the Ultimate Answer 255 19 On Being a Great Searcher: Rules of Thumb for Asking Great Questions 273 20 The Future of Online Search: Why the Research Skills You Learn Today Will Continue to Be Useful in the Future 289 Notes 303 Index 317.