Today, we experimented with the search operators to enhance our skills with researching. I started out with 7,090,000 results by typing up the question in the search engine. Now, you probably think that "Wow! This will take forever to narrow down!" That's exactly what I thought. I won't lie. However, I made it possible by narrowing down my results to two pages (twenty results). Isn't that great? Anyway, I typed in democratic AND republican positions compare OR different "fiscal cliff" -video ~views -blog. It doesn't sound grammatically correct, but it's not like it's the actual sentence for an essay. That would've been horrible! Emphasizing "fiscal clift" definitely helped. Otherwise, I would end up with millions of results where it's all about democratic and republican positions on various topics. That wouldn't be fun. It's already bad enough when we hear them bicker in a circular conversation. Taking out the video and blog with the minus sign definitely helped. I wouldn't want to read someone's inaccuracy or opinions on their blog and get bad research from it.
I also used the advanced search option for the time. To narrow it down all the way to two pages, I put in "past hour". By regulating the time, it will give you the most updated and newest information. That will definitely help because no one wants information that's be outdated. You'll just end up with a whole bunch of inaccuracy! Anyway, experimenting with these search operators helped enhance my skills with research online. Thank goodness we have these!
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