"The Official America Online Guide to the Internet" is the fundamental text for people who access the Internet through America Online. It covers the rationale behind using AOL as an easy starting point to the unlimited resources the Internet and World Wide Web have to offer. AOL insider David Peal explains AOL's suite of Internet access tools and includes "Only on AOL" sidebars which detail how AOL adds more substantial value to its Internet service.

Your Official America Online® Guide to Internet Living Make AOL and the Internet Work for You! America Online puts the world at your fingertips. But where do you go to plan your summer vacation? Or get a deal on your next automobile? Or find recipes for dinner tonight? This guide will show you the way. Packed with detailed directory information, it takes you to the best online addresses - from banking and job-hunting to hobbies and games - and explains how AOL and the Internet can make your life easier every day. Open the book and discover how to:Save time by ordering your movie tickets, groceries, and gifts on the InternetUse money-saving online 'decision guides,' tax planning tools, and investment strategiesReview your local news, weather, and entertainment for up-to-date informationDesign your own budget with easy-to-use Internet tools and calculatorsFind long lost friends, 'must-have' recipes, and even your next petImprove your skills and education with online classes and reference tools

We live in an information-saturated environment and spend far too much time searching, surfing, skimming, contributing, and organizing the information in our lives. We spend too little time immersing ourselves in reliable high quality information. We are often so buried in information and strapped for time that we grab information like it was fast food, without bothering to evaluate its quality. Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth uses stories or “information adventures” to illustrate the best approaches to searching for information and to help us develop our aptitude for locating high quality resources in a rapidly changing digital environment that is becoming proficient at monopolizing our attention with useless or unreliable information. This book is about taking charge of the search process and not handing over the reins to search engines like Google, Bing, or Yahoo to dictate what information we consume. Each chapter focuses on a quest for different types of information while digging deeper into the complexities of finding credible places to look for information and ways to think about evaluating it. As the Internet evolves and becomes more sophisticated, our strategies for finding and evaluating information need to evolve as well. The stories in this book range from investigating challenging research questions to exploring health issues and everyday life questions like finding a reliable restaurant or product review. These chapters go beyond the simple and more mechanical checklist approach to evaluating information, though these factors are also discussed.