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Web Tricks

To find out more about a web site:

1. If you want to know when a web site or web page was last updated/modified:

Open the page in your Web browser and type the following into the address bar:

javascript:alert(document.lastModified)

2. If you want to find out who owns the domain name of a web site (which may tell you more about who is responsible for the information and if there is a bias):

Go to one of these sites and type in the domain name and extension (don’t include anything after the .com, .org, .edu, etc…):

www.easywhois.com

www.internic.net/whois.html

3. If you want to find out which web sites link to a particular site, use the link-back technique. If there are reputable organizations linking to a site, it may indicate that the site is to be trusted. If there are several biased web sites that all link to a web site you are evaluating, it may indicate that the site has a similar bias.

Go to Google (or another search engine) and type the following into the search box:

link:http://[insert the webpageURL here without the brackets]