Find official websites

• Think about multiple levels (e.g., city, county, state) and about neighboring areas
• Who is the audience of this site? Local residents? Potential tourists? Businesses?
• 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