A tutorial on Web searching: strategy and syntax
A tutorial from Power Reporting. What's the best search engine? The one you learn to use well. Search engines can help you find information on the World Wide Web, but you'll get more chaff than wheat unless you learn general search strategies and the particular search syntax for your favorite search engine.

Bookshelf on Computer-Assisted Reporting
An annotated bookshelf on computer-assisted reporting, from Power Reporting. Includes online research, public records, numeracy, and statistics.

Boolean searching should be avoided
Until users get the hang of it, that is. A provocative article from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox. He concludes, "Elementary schools should start teaching search skills."

Guide to meta-search engines
A quick overview of meta-search tools, from Jian Liu of Indiana University Libraries.

Guide to Web Searching
A good introduction to the various search sites, from the Internet Public Library.

ResearchBuzz
Tara Calishain's newsletter on Web research: new sites and dissection of search tools.

Search tools chart
A comparison of the various directories and search engines, and how to search them.

Usually Useful Internet Guide for Journalists
A nifty tutorial from an international group of journalists.