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I began my search by typing the whole question which gave me over thirty million hits. Then narrowed it down to "positions" each had on the fiscal cliff. Which also gave me over thirty three millions hits in 0.24 seconds. I then narrowed my search down to the "last month's" election because it was in the "news" a lot. I narrowed it down again to the "last hour" it gave me about 95 "news" result on the issue. I inputted in discussions (different views of the "fiscal cliff" in "USA") in the last hour and nearby my location and nearby and it narrowed it down to 50 hits.
These discussions gave me opinions by both parties and how they differ on this position. I also tried other ways such as (position on "fiscal cliff" republican OR democratic view) and I was able to narrow my result to 9 hits in 0.13 seconds in just the past hour. I did the same thing but this time I used AND and I narrowed my search to 3 hits. Then I also tried the -twitter, -facebook, +Obama, +Romney, +2012 presidential debate, +discussion etc.

I have learned that there are many ways the search engine can help narrow down searches and help with unnecessary info and help get rid of irrelevant posts of the internet. Most of the website tend to show mostly the democrats because the republican tend not to have a clear policies. Many of the searches I did were narrowed down to just the relevant things.