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Web Savvy -- General Guide: Signs of Trouble

A multi-page tutorial on evaluating web sites, for beginners and those who think they know.

Web Savvy -- Page 7 -- Signs of Trouble

Pages that sell goods and services are great for price comparisons, market research, or researching a company. Web sites that pose as information sources or as advocacy organizations, but that really exist to sell you something, are poor candidates for your research.

Term paper mills are also awful places to look for information. These sites seldom offer their papers for free, and even when they do, the authors are often either students or desperate, overeducated, under-employed people out to make a fast dollar.

And Turnitin.com can find both Google snippets, and detect Chat-gpt and similar AI produced works

Here are two pages that are probably NOT good choices for your research.

Natural News.com logoClick the image to visit Natural News.com that exists to sell a wide variety of merchandise.


Term paper mill.comClick this image to learn about term paper mills.