Google – Advanced Search
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Click on Advanced Search
With an advanced Search in Google, you can specify what type of institution your search results come from.
This is called domain searching. With a domain search, you can specify that your web results come from
any of the following:
Educational institution – college, university
Nonprofit organization
Government agency
Military
Commercial
.edu
.org
.gov
.mil
.com
This can be helpful for eliminating commercial sites. The example below shows a search for articles on
fashion and the mass media, with the domain restricted to educational institutions (.edu). By doing this, you
may find papers published institutes or professors at a university; however you will still have to analyze and
evaluate what you find. You will also likely get students’ pages that are located on a university server or
course outlines or syllabi for classes on fashion or the mass media.
Another potentially useful domain for a search on the influence of mass media on fashion would be a
nonprofit organization (.org).
Domain set
to specific
domains,
such as:
.edu
.gov
.org