How to Search the Web for Credible Sources
- 1). Filter your search engines by top-level domain categories. For example, typing your search string and following it with "site:.edu" yields only sites with the ".edu" extension, used for colleges and other academic institutions. You can generally rely on academic sites to be reliable.
- 2). Use quotation marks around your search terms to ensure that only results containing the whole term will show in the search. This also provides you with results that include the exact text.
- 3). Use a minus sign before a term to omit it from your search. If you type a website domain name after the minus sign, it omits all results from that domain.
- 4). Separate terms in a search query by the Boolean "OR" tag to include results that contain one or the other of the search terms.