Using site: to get more comprehensive or trustworthy results

Let’s say hypothetically you’re looking for information on the swine flu, and you get results like:

• www dot swineflu dot com! Yeah!! Looking for swine flu? Click on these sketchy links! Buy swine flu from Amazon.com!
• Yahoo answers about swine flu: a 12 year old wants to know “I hugged a pig! Can I get the swine flu???”
• Etcetera, equally useless

This would be one instance among many where site: comes in a lot of handy.

Look for government content on the swine flu only by using the following query.

site:.gov swine flu

The first results are from the CDC, which is a good source all in all.

Similarly, if you want to look for resources on Shakespeare from colleges, use this query.

site:.edu Shakespeare

Hey, turns out colleges have some good resources on Shakespeare.

And so on and so forth: .org, .com, .net. etc etc. It's a nice and handy way to search for certain kinds of sites or only look for information from sources you’re more likely to trust.
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