There are some tips you can use to improve the results.
Look through all the results - the top one might not be the best for your research although Google will try to give you the most relevant one first there are many other factors to be taken into account.
See Google's help pages.
Try some modifiers to type in your Google search box to refine your searches and get better results
Exact phrase searches - use "quotation marks" around phrases to get results that include the exact phrase
Looking to define a word or phrase - type define: and you will get links to definitions to your word or phase
Type Allintext: then your word(s) to search for word(s) in the text only
Allintitle: to search for multiple words in the title
Intitle: to search for single word in the title
Google Scholar is a search engine that allows you to search for more academic content on the web. You can use it to track down journal articles, book details and more. You can set it up to show you which results you can access via a Solent University library subscription.
In Scholar, click on the menu icon in the top left corner:
Select Settings and then select 'Library Links'. Enter 'Solent' in the search box then select Southampton Solent University - Is it @ Solent' and Save.
Any results available via Solent will now show the 'Is it @ Solent' link to give you access to our library holdings
OFF CAMPUS: You must check the access information for each article via the Full Text @ SSU screens and login to view.
Set up a link to 'Import into RefWorks' for each result in your list. To set this up, go into the menu icon, select Settings and in the 'Bibliography Manager' section, select RefWorks and save.
Your results list will include a number of options for each result where you can view other items that might be of interest, mark the item to read later and send the reference to RefWorks etc.
Sign in and access articles you have saved. Save articles by clicking on the star icon beside it in the results list.