Find your city's official website
- Usually end in .org or .gov
- Consider looking at sites for the county and adjacent municipalities (suburbs/townships/etc.)
- Don't rely on the search bar within the website
Use Google to search within a website
- site: allows you to limit search results to a single website
- For example, to search for pages on transportation within the Kalamazoo website (kalamazoocity.org), use the following search:
transportation site:kalamazoocity.org
- Make sure there are no spaces after "site:" or within the website URL
Use all the Google search tools
- Click the Tools button under the search bar to see more filter options
- "Any time" lets you filter by date
- "All results" lets you toggle the "verbatim" option, which searches using only your exact search terms (no synonyms)
- Advanced Search opens up even more options