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TOOLBOX:
How to use search syntax to cut down millions of hits. Our challenge here is to cut down more than five million hits for annual reports and corruption.
1. Open a search engine, in your browser. In this case, Google.
2. Go to advanced search.
3. Select top box, "all these words".
4. Type the search term in quotes. In this case, "annual report".
5. Add variables, in this case, corruption.
6. Scroll down to near end for type of file. Hint. Ctrl+end gets you there faster.
7. Select PDF.
Or use "annual report" corruption filetype:PDF
NOTES:
This post discusses how to use Google search to compare trends. In this case, annual reports and how much they reflect public information about an issue, corruption.
An advanced search for all three words, "annual report" and corruption, return some 5+ million results. But we can filter this down. A generally accepted practice is to post formal annual reports via PDF file. This chops the result down to 580,000 hits, about 10% of the original hit count.
Use this link for latest results: "annual report" corruption filetype:pdf
Google trends does not appear to support their own search syntax, sadly. Too much crunching involved, possibly. Trying to quote "annual report"+corruption led to a trends result too close to be correct.
Numerous reports exist offline, or beyond public view, but this approach serves as an adequate enough indication of online capacity.
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