During a break at the library I took the time to wander to the 648s. 648.5 seemed to encompass cleaning and this included green, simple and organic means. Another popular resource is the magazine RealSimple. Patrons of the library can find this information by searching through the online catalog with the keyword of 'cleaning.' Naturally this method is most successful depending on the library the patron frequents, the smaller branches are not going to have a large collection, whereas the Main Library will have an overwhelming amount of resources.
Google is my search engine of choice. Search combinations that can be used: green clean* home, organic clean* home, safe clean* home, simple clean* home, diy clean* home, make your own clean* home etc. If wanting to search for blogs than the addition of blog to the search bar would add that into the equation, although Google also offers a specific search engine for blogs.
Pros of Google: practically guaranteed to get a hit (Is the hit relevant though?), uses some synonyms such as house=home and pulls 'do it yourself' alongside 'diy.'
Cons of Google: way too many results, not all synonyms plugged in. These are all keywords that all fall in together: nontoxic, eco-friendly, green, organic, natural and safe. However results with these keywords do not appear all together. Subject headings would help very much in this type of situation, while this method can be very frustrating to some and found limiting it would be much nicer if one could search 'natural cleaning home' and retrieve the most relevant results without having to repeat the search again and again.
The Google search terms can be used for YouTube as well, although the best results appear when asking for a specific thing i.e. cleaning the sink.
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