Research narrowing

How do the Democratic and Republican positions on the "fiscal cliff" differ?  This is the question our class researched.  When we research on google we always look at the first couple links that pop and assume it is the right link for our topic.  This is not true.  There are better ways to research and to narrow your research topic down to the best choices possible.  There is a step process to searching the right way.  First, type the topic question in, and capitalise all three letters in AND in the question and search. Secondly, go to search tools all the way on the right and below that will give you the times that you want and it is best to go to past 24 hours.  The third step is to see how many results you get after you searched and try to narrow your results to even less.  To do that you need to go back to where you put the search question and exclude the results you do not want, for example, put the minus sign which means (NOT) images, pictures etc.  This will narrow your choices down.  Lastly go next to the times that you asked for and their should be a choice asking what results you want and scroll down to near by . This should narrow your choice to the minimum of 4 and that is how I did my research.