Searching: Websites

Searching for Health Information Online

Please watch the following 2-minute video, which provides tips for effective Google searching, including how to limit your results to only educational (.edu) or government (.gov) websites.

Keywords 

Remember to use your keywords to focus your results.

Google search using the keywords asthma, low income, and hispanic OR latino and liming to the domain .gov

Recommended Websites

General

Local

Statistics Links to an external site.

Now You Try

  • Brainstorm relevant keywords for your topic. 
  • Use Google Search Links to an external site. or the Recommended Websites above to find relevant, credible websites for your research topic.
  • Remember to fact-check your source:
    • Investigate the source.
    • Consider upgrading your source.
  • Save your sources on a Google Doc.

UWF Libraries. (n.d.). Searching Google effectively Links to an external site. [video file].