Searching for high-quality and reliable information online can be difficult, particularly when you are looking for cutting-edge information or researching new products.
- Choose your search terms with care.
- Be as specific as possible. For example, searching for "cloud computing" will yield general resources that discuss what cloud computing is. Searching for "cloud computing infrastructure as a service security challenges 2025" will pull up a more specific set of resources.
- Avoid using value words such as "best" or "most reliable" in your searches. Every company uses these types of words in its marketing, but you cannot trust the company to tell you it is the best or the most at something. You will need to evaluate what you find yourself.
- You can limit your results to particular sources.
- Adding site:gov to your search pulls up U.S. government websites
- Adding site:edu pulls up results on school websites.
- You can also use this tip to limit results to your trusted news or industry websites. For example, site:wsj.com will pull up only articles on the Wall Street Journal's website. Try searching for "cloud computing site:wsj.com" to see this tip in action.
