After you've identified where your information falls in the timeline of published information, the next step is to choose the appropriate tool to find the information you need. Just as information is published in different sources, like newspapers, books, and journals, those information sources are searched for and accessed through different search tools.

Chances are you are familiar with the Web and have used search engines like Google and Yahoo to search the Web for information.

Search engines are excellent tools for finding information like current news, government statistics, company annual reports, consumer health information, and so on.