Asking "where?
Learn to evaluate information
Practical sheet REF: FIC1043 V1
Asking "where?
Learn to evaluate information

Author : Xavier DELENGAIGNE

Publication date: June 10, 2022 | Lire en français

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3. Asking "where?

Where is the resource located? What are the geographical limits of the information?

Sometimes an Internet search leads to the wrong result, because it's on a foreign site.

Example: you're looking for legal information, and you think you've found the right answer, but a glance at the URL shows you the extension ". be"... So you get a result in Belgium.

When you launch a search on Google, remember to restrict the results to France.

To find out whether the website in question is hosted on a server in France or abroad, you need to decipher the URL address, and in particular the region code.

Attention

Don't blindly rely on country codes. In fact, they provide information on the nationality of the host, not that of the site!...

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