Medical Terminology (BST 103): Websites

Look for the ABCs of a good website.

• Authority/Affiliation
• Bias free   
• Current

Medline Plus is a great example:

• Authority: National Library of Medicine
• Affiliation:   National Institutes of Health
• Bias free:    Yes, strictly educational
• Current:      Yes, updated daily, reviewed frequently

• Phrase search (""): By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Google to search those exact words in that exact order without any change
• Search within a specific website (site:): Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain.
• Fill in the blanks (*): Use an asterisk (*) as a placeholder for any unknown or "wildcard" terms.   
• The OR operator: Google's default behavior is to consider all the words in a search. If you want to specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR operator (note that you have to type 'OR' in ALL CAPS)

Want more ideas?  Read Google's own help pages.