Last weekend I was helping my daughter do Internet research for an English Composition paper. The topic was one of the many liberal causes (the actual subject isn't relevant here), and her team had been given several articles for the basis for their work. The articles all took the liberal position, of course. Since the issue is one about which neither of us is strongly informed, we were searching for factual information on which she could reach an opinion of her own. Searching the Internet for this was a time-consuming pain, because almost all of the search results I got from Google were advocacy sites, which we didn't want at that stage. These advocacy sites were so numerous that it was nearly impossible to find the dispassionate factual information she needed.
My search technique with Google at present is to wordcraft the search "phrase" thus: "word or phrase" & "word or phrase" & "word or phrase". The "&" instructs Google to look first for sites that have all or most of the "word or phrase"'s. I use quotation marks around phrases, so Google will search for the entire phrase rather than the individual words in the phrase. Does anyone have suggestions that would improve my and her search skills?
