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Analysis Of Solar Energy

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Subsequently, the next box is “none of these words.” This box must be combined with another one of the boxes above as it is meant to pick out the words typed in and exclude any resources that mention those words. Functioning as a Boolean “not.” In order to use this box to narrow the number of results, pick a term that is not relevant to what is being researched, but related to the topic. For the example search, if “wind,” “nuclear,” and “coal” are typed into the “none of these words” text box the search will be more focused on solar energy instead of other sources of renewable energy. An example that reflects the change made with the search is the “Solar Industry Data” the article tracks trends and growth related to solar energy, and is …show more content…

For the example, “English” will be selected. The number of results is then 510,000. Which is up again since Google is a metacrawler and is looking for hyperlinks within the to what it thinks are related web pages that are in English and don’t need to contain the previously inputted information. An example of this is, Pinterest comes up again and there are also numerous articles unrelated to Minnesota, like, “Excess solar power in California? Pay Arizona to take it” by Will Stone, published on June 9th, 2016. Once again, as with the "numbers ranging from," this function will help narrow down the example search when combined with later boxes. This box can also be useful when looking for information on countries with a different language that the researcher would like to be in a readable language. With the next box down, “region,” affects the area the document or source was published in. Adding on to the example search by selecting “United States” in the drop-down box. This brings the results down to 462,000. The next box is “last update” which presents sources that were last altered sometime between now and the time frame selected. Such as the “past 24 hours,” “one week,” “one month,” or “one year” in a drop-down. With the example search of renewable solar energy in Minnesota and the “last update” set to “past year” the results are reduced to 77,100. Following that is the lone textbox which will narrow the type of domain the resources that are presented originate.

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