4. Take advantage of the inurl: operator on Google

If you don't know the "top leveldomain" of a site, or if it's impossible for you to use it, you can use the inurl: operator, which limits the search to the words included in the URL.

For example, if you want to identify documents on polymer testing and properties published on French university sites, you can't use the site: operator, since most French university sites have chosen a domain name in the form univ-ville.fr or univ-region.fr (e.g.: univ-lemans.fr, univ-savoie.fr...).

The trick here is to add the operator inurl:univ to the words in your query. Responses will be neither exhaustive (some universities do not contain "univ" in their domain name) nor rigorous (a page such as www.tartempion.com/dossier/univ will be selected...), but the query will enable you to quickly identify a large number of relevant responses that would otherwise...