Searches on the Open Web can often be useful starting points for your research, but they can also often return irrelevant or non-scholarly results. To improve your Google searches, try limiting your search by various domains or otherwise refining your search using these search tips:
Build a group of multiple terms that describe one of your topics (as opposed to searching for results in which all the terms appear, which is the default). Then add additional topics to focus the results
Limit your search by domain:
Limit your search to words in the title:
Remove unwanted results:
Limit by date:
For more reliable Google results, you can limit your search to a particular site or domain.
Sites from U.S. institutions of higher education and the U.S. government tend to be more reliable than .coms and even many .orgs, but still be critical, seeking out author info and other determinants of credibility.
e.g. hiv site:.edu
e.g. hiv site:haverford.edu
e.g. hiv site:.gov
e.g. hiv site:pa.gov
