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Google Search Tips
Put phrases in quotation marks:
To search for your terms just in the titles of web pages, type intitle: in front of your terms.
Limit your results to certain domains (e.g., .edu, .gov, .org)
Search for the websites of organizations you read about in articles -- these organizations often have useful information.
How to Evaluate Websites
Initial Observations:
To get a quick, initial overview of a website, look at information on the website's "About Us" page.
In-Depth Evaluation Strategy:
To dig deeper into the credibility and reliability of a website, you'll need to do more reading and investigating, including:
- fact-checking
- learning what other sources say about the website (lateral reading)
The video below, from the University of Louisville, discusses "lateral reading", which is a strategy professional fact-checkers use to determine how reliable an online source is.