What strategies do I use when I research?

When I research I immediately go to google and type in what I want to know. I use this as my preview research by taking the information I learn from the initial google search and then go to more reliable internet sources, books, journals, encyclopedias, etc to see if the information I found is actually true. This process usually gets me further into the topic I am researching and gets me several different versions of the information that lets me understand it better and reinforces the information.