Before information is used or cited, it is important to check out its online references: who links to it and what links the author has placed on the page.
Links are one of the easiest credibility indicators to locate. Search engines index all the pages that a Web page links to, which makes it possible to search for the pages in the search engine's database that point back to a page of interest.
Next: Techniques to locate links
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