This speech was particularly interesting solely due to its relevance in accordance with us, the students. We covered many different subjects going over the general Internet, the one subject that I was drawn into more so though was the infamous action of Google searching and the things we have to watch out for but also why it is so popular. Google spends a good amount of time and money making sure that they have the best search engine, from inflation of a website to not taking bribes that would allow curtain sites pop up above others ha-ha. As Chris mentioned, Google is great for everyday searching basic information, it's weakness also lays with the genius behind the operation, the search formula. Google does its searching order based on title hits, and how many sites recommend the site. Due to this type of search formula, like I said earlier everyday information would most likely be on the first site that popped up, the problem lays with when the information is a bit more serious. When doing a project for a class, if you're using Google you're going to have a very hard time finding "scholarly" work, as with most searches with Google those types of information banks, will sink to the bottom of the results. Have no fear though, as their is a Google Search completely devoted to scholarly works, Google Scholar. Mr. Nolan went over a daring fact that most student's information is not entirely credible due to their lack in understanding of the way many search engines or databases work, with presentations like his and classes like Mrs. Belisle's we can change that.
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