When I searched the question, a lot of results appeared, almost 40 billion came up. I wanted to find good results so I used some search operators. To narrow the results down, I added the word AND between democratic and republican. This cut the number of results in half. Then I used the search tool, verbatim and the results went to 10,000. Although verbatim took out a lot of results out, it also took out some important articles too so I stopped using it.
I put the words fiscal cliff in quotation marks and it gave me some great articles. I also started to use the NOT for the word Obama and it took out more than half of the results. I wanted to take out more words, so I used to minus sign (-). After taking out a couple of words, I got down to 3 results, and they were good, usable results.
I think the best combination of search engines was using the quotation marks and the minus sign. This combination gave me the best results because I can specify the order of the words with the quotation marks and take out words that aren't important on what I'm searching on. If too many results are taken out I use the tilde (~) to add words. This search operator made the number of results grow and it gave me some usable articles.
I put the words fiscal cliff in quotation marks and it gave me some great articles. I also started to use the NOT for the word Obama and it took out more than half of the results. I wanted to take out more words, so I used to minus sign (-). After taking out a couple of words, I got down to 3 results, and they were good, usable results.
I think the best combination of search engines was using the quotation marks and the minus sign. This combination gave me the best results because I can specify the order of the words with the quotation marks and take out words that aren't important on what I'm searching on. If too many results are taken out I use the tilde (~) to add words. This search operator made the number of results grow and it gave me some usable articles.
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