Internet Research Guide

REMEMBER:  There are three domains on the Internet that contain content more appropriate for academic research:

     .edu results contain information coming from educational institutions.

     .gov results' information comes from governmental agencies.

     .org results' information comes from non-profit / charitable organizations (though some business advertisers slip into this category as well, so you have to use your judgement with these).  

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How do you limit your searches to .edu, .gov, and .org? 

You do so by creating a search request that is written like this:   search term site:gov 

     So, an example might be:  sea level rise site:gov   

    When you look at a results-list for that search in Google, you see that most** of its results come from the  .gov domain (which is only given out to agencies connected to the government). 

**You will find a few results coming from other sites that manage to "sneak in" occasionally.