Sunday, December 2, 2012

Google Search

I was told by my teacher to search a question on Google. The question was; how do the democratic and republican positions on the “Fiscal Cliff” differ? There was a method to this question; I was supposed to get the least results as possible. She gave us a lesson so we knew how to do it. When we typed the question in Google we had a lot of ways that we could get very little results. For example if there was an “and” or an “or” we have to capitalize them for example AND, OR. Another way is you could put a minus sign (-) in front of something that you don’t want. For example when I search the question a lot of results came up with opinions from twitter, since I didn’t want that kind of information I put, –twitter and with that no more twitter came up. The minus sign (-) means not. Another way was that in search tools I could choose from what time and what kind of results for example sites with images, related searches, visited pages, etc. This is going to help you to get the right information you need/want and also it was going to give you the least results and that’s what I wanted. When I was searching this I put; democratic AND republican positions in fiscal cliff -twikle -facebook -perspectives -daily –image -video -blog -tumblr -research –twitter, with this I got very little results.

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