Researching the Crusades:

To try to expand my horizons (and because Mr. Whitten is making us) I have not been using Google for this assignment. I have found Yahoo and Bing are basically the same thing, but for educational purposes sweetsearch has by far been the most useful. The documents it brings up are always trustworthy unlike the things you may sometimes end up with on Wikipedia. I have been having trouble finding Muslim perspectives on the crusades. It seems like much of the work online is either general summaries of the battles or told from a Christian perspective. There is also a lot of modern day search results which is not useful to me right now, but I found it interesting that conflicts 800 years old could evolve and still exist today. A final problem I am having is conflicting information. When I read two different facts, I try to look back to my notes from our class discussions but this only solved one discrepancy. By double checking sources and comparing sites I believe I found the proper information, but I wish it would just be right the first time.