Make web searches more precise 3 limit the search to specific domains
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"Publish and prosper" is a series of posts about tips for researchers whose first language is not English but who submit papers to journals published in English. The series touches upon not only writing (spelling, grammar, punctuation, usage, and style) but everything else relevant to publishing research papers that journal editors wish their authors knew.
![Two earlier posts in this series discussed some ways to search the Internet more efficiently, namely enclosing phrases in double quotes [1] and searching for specific file types [2]. This post takes a different approach, focusing not on the contents of web pages but on their providers. As a researcher, you are more likely to trust research, academic, and educational institutes more than you trust commercial entities . Even if we keep the matter of trust aside and consider relevance, you are likely to find web pages hosted by research institutes more relevant to your needs than those hosted by other entities.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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Make web searches more precise 3 limit the search to specific domains
- 1. Make web searches more precise 3: limit the search to specific domains
- 2. Two earlier posts in this series discussed some ways to search the Internet more efficiently, namely enclosing phrases in double quotes [1] and searching for specific file types [2]. This post takes a different approach, focusing not on the contents of web pages but on their providers. As a researcher, you are more likely to trust research, academic, and educational institutes more than you trust commercial entities . Even if we keep the matter of trust aside and consider relevance, you are likely to find web pages hosted by research institutes more relevant to your needs than those hosted by other entities.
- 3. It is simple enough to express this preference in a search-all you need to do is to combine the search terms with, for example, site:.ac (type the word site followed by a colon, a dot, and the domain name ac ; do not insert a space anywhere). This restricts the source of web pages to the domain ac (for academic). Depending on what you are searching for, you can similarly restrict your searchers to .gov so that the sources will only be governmental organizations in the United States, including both the federal government and state and local governments; to .edu for educational institutes in the United States; to .org for organizations anywhere (typically non-commercial); and so on. http://blog.editage.com/make-web-searches-more-precise-insert-double-quotes-around-search-phrases http://blog.editage.com/make-web-searches-more-precise-2
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