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*Bypassing newspaper registration requests:
**'''http://www.bugmenot.com/''' - Login names for more than 20,000 websites are also available at who believe compulsory registration is a violation of privacy - or at least a waste of time. There is a bookmarklet available at the site.
**Sogole Honarvar outlined in ''Poynter Online'' the secret to [http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=61205 Avoiding registration at news sites]. "Poynter Online reports a tip for those tired of registering at news Web sites in order to access free content. Using the log-in 'freethepresses', or 'freethepresses@example.com' if an email address is appropriate, and the password 'freethepresses' will provide users with quick access to news without the hassle of registration. This trick works at the ''Los Angeles Times'' site, ''The New York Times'' site and the sites for both ''The Chicago Tribune'' and the ''Washington Post''. Although it is unclear who went through the trouble to create these fake log-ins, news junkies everywhere are surely thankful for the tip."
*[http://www.lib.purdue.edu/itd/techman/eval.html Why we need to evaluate what we find on the Internet] provides a checklist of questions to ask when areas to check when evaluating the reliability and credibility of information found on the Internet.
*To clearly identify what you are searching for ... using '''George W. Bush''' as the example ... search by typing "George W. Bush" in the search line, making sure to bracket the full name in quotation marks. This keeps the '''George''' - '''W.''' - '''Bush''' together. Otherwise, the search will be for each part of his name and you will get some returns for '''George W. Bush''' as a name, but quickly find that the '''George''' and '''Bush''' are scattered throughout the results.