Searching like an investigator

Good searching is a skill. Start narrow and widen only when you must.

Operators

• "exact phrase" matches those words together
• site:example.org limits results to one website
• filetype:pdf finds documents
• -word removes a word

Check before you trust

Ask who published it, when, and whether a second independent source says the same. Web archives show how a page looked in the past.

In challenges and in real life, only look at fictional or public information, and never go after private people.