Today we practiced how to research using search operators to narrow down results. This is to help for any research paper that we will be doing in the future, such as the Capstone Research Paper. To start of, we were given a question from the teacher and then, of course, we typed the question. The question was "How do the democratic and republican positions differ on fiscal cliff?" To begin narrowing the results, I first used the quotation marks on the word "fiscal cliff" to narrow down the results, which gave me a result of 7,090,000. I then added a tilde before differ, but sadly, still got 2,9100,000 results. I was determined to narrow the results as much as possible so I looked for different ways to narrow it down.
I then began using the advanced search and decided to only include results from the United States and in English. I continued to experiment on what search operators to use along with the search tools provided by Google. Eventually, I decided to type " Republican and Democratic 'positions on fiscal cliff' -video" with the same advanced search that eliminates videos on any website result, and got only 6 results. To narrow it further, I decided to add "-opinion" to remove any opinions about the topic. In the end, I got up to only 5 results. It is necessary to narrow down results, but the results must answer, or related to your topic or research question.
