Once the author or organization has been identified you may need to do more investigating.
| Look for on the WWW | Example |
|---|---|
| Credentials of the author or organization on the web site. | If the credentials of the author are not
easily found on the web site and an email address is provided contact the author and ask for credentials. |
| Do a search on the author or organization in your favourite search engine. | Google or Yahoo search with quotes (“Jane Doe”) and without (Jane Doe) and see what other sites are attributed to the author or organization. |
| Do a search of the web site using the Internet Archive’s WayBackMachine. | Go to http://www.archive.org/ Put the url in search and see archived pages of the web site. |
| Do a back link search on the url to identify the web sites that link to a particular URL. | In Google I would place the words “link:” and then the URL to see web sites that link to the web site I am examining and what they say. |
| Do a whois search of the domain name for domain registry information. | Go to http://www.dnsstuff.com/ and put the URL in the “WHOIS Lookup.” |