Search Smarter!

Google and Beyond

Google Search Tips: If you think that Google is just another simple search engine, think again. There are numerous tricks to help you in your research. 
  • Google Tips and Tricks: Strategies every student should know
  • To search only college/university sites, add site:edu to the search box. This limits your search to ".edu" sites. You still need to evaluate the source!
  • Google Advanced Search allows you to select or exclude pages with m
  • A Google A Day: Test yourself with this search game - a new challenge every day! 
Beyond Google (Yes, there are other search engines.)
  • Yippy or Clusty (two names, same search engine)
    - Searches other search engines for you.
    - Groups search results together by topic
  • Sweet Search 
    - All results have been evaluated and approved by teachers and librarians
  • DuckDuckGo
    - emphasizes privacy and does not record user information.
Academic Search Engines
  • ​Google Scholar - From one place you have the ability to hunt for peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
  • Google Books - A database of millions of books, many of which can be previewed. Google Books is also useful for previewing books, especially for reviewing the table of contents.
  • Microsoft Academic - The search engine pulls content from over 120 million publications, including scientific papers, conferences and journals.
  • WorldWideScience - This search engine is operated by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information and utilizes databases from over 70 countries and will display both English and translated results from related journals and academic resources.
  • List of more search engines: https://www.rasmussen.edu/student-experience/college-life/15-educational-search-engines/