As I've written in another post, one key to good writing is, of course, good research. I think good research is both an art and a science. It requires not only the use of credible, authoritative and comprehensive sources, but it also requires something of the researcher herself.

A good researcher will possess keen inferential reasoning. She will be able to sift through tons of relevant data to find the most relevant data - the needle in the stack of needles, if you will. A good researcher will also know how to compare similar data across various sources.

In praise of quality research, we've created a free research tool, called m0rpheme. m0rpheme enables you to do comparative searches across different IR systems - all within one site. For example, you can compare the same query in hakia, a semantic web search engine, and Google Scholar, which delivers results only from scholarly journals and publications. Or, run multiple queries filtering out only academic and/or government sites, and compare those results with results from the top 25 academic libraries.

Eventually, we hope to develop m0rpheme into a more sophisticated API that will run multiple queries, on multiple engines, simultaneously.

Happy researching!