Chris Nolan presentation

Unfortunately I was not present for the Chris Nolan presentation. Thanks to reading my classmates’ blogs I know the basics of his presentation. Google is one of the most popular sites on the internet. I go there several times a day to look up information that to many would seem meaningless. Other days I use it to research for papers or presentations of my own. I like Google because it has so many settings. I can find a popularized website and a video to link in my presentation, but I can also go to scholar and look up articles written by an academic source. Google brings up the most relevant sites first for a search. It takes into account the title of the site, the number of links, and the number of hits to come up with the most complete search possible. I did not know that Yahoo sorts their sites differently. This is helpful for when Google is struggling to bring up something relevant. Switching between the sites is an excellent idea. The ending of a website can give clues as to how trustworthy the website is. The endings .edu and .gov are more likely to be helpful than websites ending in .com. This seems to have been a very informative presentation and I am sorry to have missed it.