Controversial Topics

Some basic search tips:

• Use quotation marks when searching for a phrase e.g. "genetic engineering".
• Use the I'm feeling lucky button to find the most popular website on a topic.

Search website titles:

• You can make a search more precise by limiting your search words to the title of the page e.g. allintitle:climate change

Search specific sites or domains:

• You can limit your search by adding site:edu to locate your search terms at .edu sites only.

Search for specific document types:

• You can search for specific document types by adding the command filetype: to the end of your search. This allows you to search for pdfs, PowerPoint presentations, Excel files and others e.g. filetype:pdf, filetype:ppt, filetype:xls

Find synonyms:

• Putting a tilde in from of a word will run a search for it and its synonyms
• ~sun will retrieve results including solar

Find a definition:

• Use the command define: nanotechnology to locate a definition

Exclude terms (-):

• Use - before a term to exclude it from search results
• twins -Minnesota

Advanced search option:

• you can combine many of the above commands if you start your search in the Advanced Search screen instead of using the basic search option