I couldn't tell you what all of it does, but I can make a start. Others might be able to follow on from me.

sourceid=chrome-instant: This bit looks like its telling google what browser you used to make the query. They'll be using this to optimise the response that gets sent back to take advantage of the features your browser has (or doesn't have). For example, the instant search (where it shows results while you're typing) might not be available in, say, Internet Explorer 6.

ie=UTF-8: UTF-8 is a method of character encoding. This is probably there to tell Google how the characters in your search query are encoded.

hl=en: Bonjour! Hola! Guten Tag! This bit here is telling Google to give you your results in English, or results from English pages.

As for your concerns about privacy. Even without all the stuff in the search bar, Google's will get quite a bit of data from any search query you send. Your IP address is carried in the packet headers. They can work out roughly your geographic region. They'll build up information about what you've been searching for, and what times you search for them. They can see which search results were most useful to you (the ones you click on!), and various other bits and pieces.

They use this information to target adverts at you. They sell this ability to target adverts (they don't sell the information itself), to other companies. This is why Google exists, and why it is free to use all their services. The information they collect about you will likely never be seen by human eyes. It all goes into a big pot with everyone else's data, and is processed into statistics and charts.

If this sort of thing makes you uncomfortable, there are alternative search providers, email providers, map providers, etc, who don't collect data. (for example: https://duckduckgo.com/)

EDIT: Some more information on the search parameters here: http://www.blueglass.com/blog/google-search-url-parameters-query-string-anatomy/

Stats are part of the "window dressing" that defines /litrpg. But they all act on a spectrum. "it's the story stupid", we can tolerate shit-loads of stats of useless facts if the story is good, the characters are (within the game world) within reason, and have believable motivations/flaws/etc.

There are many "heavy stats" (especially on audio book, who cares about durability and weight of your shiny new artifact dagger?) like The Land. Jesus, in back to back chapters he lists off all the newly returned NPC's and their new schools of magic. The first 1/2 of Predators was endless levelling up, improving this, that, and that too. Some are more tolerable than others here. Life Reset was also stat heavy but still a good story, and a twist on the "hero/anti hero".

Down the list a little you have Awaken Online, still has stats, still reads them off fairly regularly. But might go a few chapters between re-iterating them.

Farther down the list, still mostly /litrpg is Delvers LLC. they buy powers, but most of what they do with the powers isn't documented or explained, they just do it after figuring it out. No "player does XXX amount of damage" messages. But you often have the "DM" jumping in and sending everyone messages.

And in the same vein, Its not /litRPG, but you clearly see Harry Dresden get more and more powerful as the series progresses. He goes from 1 ring, to a braided ring, to 10 braided rings. He goes from needing his props (wand, bracelet, etc), to being strong enough to just make it happen (Fuego! bitches).

I do Audible for everything. I can picture when "Artifact dagger of fart attraction" shows up, there is a heavy page break, and a full stat block like i'd see displayed on a WoW server. But PLEASE tell the narrator to skip "durability 99/100 weight 3.5 pounds, High steel" and just say "this dagger does 34-98 damage, and will cause the those hit to spontaneously explosively fart" All we need are the "relevant & salient" points of information, and not filler stats.

The national MBE mean helps predict the direction of the state MBE mean, which helps predict what direction the state pass rates will be going. The following chart illustrates how July CO pass rates track the July national mean MBE. It is based on July exams from 1995-2020.

https://seperac.com/bar/pdf/Colorado.png

As you can see, the pass rates track the MBE pretty closely. In J16, the national MBE mean was also 140.3 and the CO pass rate was 73%. I would expect a similar CO pass rate for J22. FYI, the J22 national MBE mean of 140.3 is the 7th lowest national July MBE mean in the history of the MBE (with J72 being the lowest, which was when the MBE was first introduced). The national July MBE mean (from July exams between 1974-2021) is 142 so the 140.3 is a bit below average. The highest July MBE mean (from July exams between 1974-2022) was 145.6 in 2008 (I excluded J21 because it wasn’t a normal exam).