One of the most powerful features of Google is the ability to use the search engine to search a particular web site. Let’s say a patron comes in and wants information on a Dr. Pemberton at the University of Tennessee. You can search the university web site for the faculty members with this search: Pemberton and site: utk.edu.
With Google, you can limit a search to sites only in a certain domain. This is how: Type in your search term then an AND and then site:org. For example: “climate change and site:org”. This would search web sites that end in .org for the term climate change. You can also limit a search to the title of the web page by doing this: “intitle: climate change.”
I learned this at the Virginia Library Association Conference in the session titled Legal Research on the Open and the Deep Webs delivered by Paul Barron.
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