1. My question was: "Who invented the roller coaster and when?"
2. I used "first roller coaster" to conduct my search. It worked ok but seemed to give me too recent of results. Luckily i found part of my answer in a "look back at 100 years of roller coasters."
3. I didn't try any other terms because i was already almost too vague to get the result i was looking for. I tried with and without quotations and got the same results for both.
4. I had too few because of my subject matter. I believe it would have been a search better suited for a regular search engine like "Yahoo." I would consider at least 20 related items enough for a search, where as i had only 7 related but only one of those applied to my question.
5. One of my results answered part of my question (when was the first roller coaster). However it didn't answer who invented it.
6. The grouping of words and the use of "and" and "or" as links between them can help refine the search. The less grouped the words are the more results, however grouping can be more specific and eliminate unwanted results sometimes.
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You are still working with a pretty basic level of question. It gets more complicated when you expand it to the history of roller coasters. But you might find studies of businesses that offer rides, like Disneyland or the effects of motion on human beings or why some people can tolerate motion in a way that others can't. These types of inquiries will allow you to find more scholarly results.
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