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This article argues that it is misleading for language research writers to always consult Google about every piece of information they look up. The reason is that the best academic part of the Internet is hidden from Google and other traditional search engines. There is an internet behind the Internet, an ‘invisible web’, or a ‘deep web’ as it is commonly called. In fact, Google and other search engines can access only 4% of the whole Internet, while 96% is hidden from us. The article attempts to solve this problem by compiling selected hidden “deep web” sites that are extremely useful for researchers of linguistics, ELT, and literature. Such sites help researchers in getting potential research titles, bibliographies, academic reviews, e-books, and journal articles. The article is thus a call for language research writers to go beyond the misleading Google, and adopt the practice of consulting the “deep web” whenever they begin to write any research paper, be it a graduate research project, an MA thesis, or a doctoral dissertation.
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