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December 16

Google Search

Hello, ~Q1 I was trying to google search with different operators. I tried with adding "after" and "before" in the search box, with the search input. For the second time, I used tools for the custom range for the exact time frame for the same search. The two search tools provided different number of results.

for e.g.

• In my first search- "my query" after:2011 before:2015 site:"provided site name"
• In my second search (google tools used, and custom range and sites provided); "my query"

What might be the reason for the difference in the number of search number? What I found was the first page of both the searches were with the same contents.

~Q2 Also, I was planning to incorporate the number of search results in research articles providing the number of results (as provided from google). Can such google searches be placed in my methodologies and provide them in my discussion? What other considerations might be there? Has there been such work?

Thankyou for your time.

Learnerktm 07:48, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

For (2) I suggest you read WP:GYNOT and Google result counts are a meaningless metric.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 09:23, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Screen flickering in 4 month old HP laptop.

I having this issue of laptop gives me screen flickering and stuck. I had to restart to work again. How to solve this problem? I already tried resetting the Operating system. Still problem persists. Is problem related to GPU? Most of forums sites referring to GPU problem? But it's new laptop. Rizosome (talk) 15:50, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

There's a few different things it could be - might be as simple as making sure your refresh rate is set correctly, which you can do in your display settings. It could also be that the screen's drivers aren't correctly installed - here's a site that walks through setting them up right. --Condimentary (talk) 20:27, 16 December 2020 (UTC)