• Take a look at the first ten to see if they coincide at all with your topic. For instance, if your inquiry on the Chrysler Building yielded thousands of articles, and the first 10 are all about cars, you'll need to rephrase the search string or use a different search engine.
• If the first ten listings are on your topic, download a few of them to skim offline and extract more search terms to use.
• Add more words to your search string. Try putting a more specific word first:
  Example: "William Van Alen"+architect+"Chrysler Building"+"New York"+"Art Deco"+Design When possible, link (+) the terms so that all will appear in your selected documents
• Specify terms that you do not want

"Chrysler Building" not automobile not "car dealer" not Detroit