Searching the Internet

The Internet is a wonderful tool but it can be overwhelming, and is not always a source of useful information.  This certainly applies to Freemasonry, as well as any other topic.

These sections are aimed at helping you sift and sort through the billions of web sites out there, and select ones more likely to fit your needs.

• What is the Internet? - a general information page
• Search engines - selecting the ones to suit your search
• Expressing your search - choosing the best words, limiting and linking them
• Reliability - is the material I find authoritative or a flight of fancy?
• Web tutorials - more detailed lessons from reputable teachers
• Links - to useful starting sites

These advice pages have been written by David Beagley, drawing on his background as an academic librarian at La Trobe University, Bendigo.  They are intended as an introduction to Internet searching and certainly do not claim to be a complete authority on all things cyber-inquisitive.

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These pages are designed by David Beagley for the Hall Board of the Bendigo Masonic Centre.
Responsibility for, and copyright of, content (unless otherwise noted) are his and his alone.

Last updated November 2005