Finding information on the Internet

My own advice would always be "Don't search!" -- don't use a search engine, that is -- if you can possibly help it. If you've got a book or a tutor or a colleague at hand, often you'll find that that they're faster and more authoritative sources of information.

But then again, at some point, you won't have any choice (or at least a search engine will seem to be the most readily available choice).

If you are going to use search engines ("Not just Google-is-Evil!" I would say), it pays to know how to use them efficiently. Some resources:

Refining searches
A tutorial from the BBC

Tutorials
More tutorials on searching the Web (Pandia.com)

Finding information on the Internet
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/

Information Literacy: Search Strategies
How to choose the best search option for your information need

More "21st Century Literacies"
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/21c.html