Chris Nolan - Searching the Internet

I learned many useful tools for searching the internet through Mr. Nolan’s presentation. In the past I guess I have gotten by knowing simply the basic steps for using search engines such as Google. However, Mr. Nolan shared several new methods for searching the internet that I am sure I will use in the future. One particularly useful tool that I found out about was the cached link (found below the URL and entry on the search page) which highlights specific search words throughout a document allowing you to identify them quicker. I also learned that you can include country codes in your search in order to limit your search within a particular country. Also you can place a minus sign before the word “site” if you don’t want to include particular sites within your search. For example, if Hurricanes and global warming -site:edu was entered into a search engine, your search concerning hurricanes and global warming would not include educational websites. One thing that surprised me was how easily an extremely unprofessional and fabricated webpage can appear among the top results for certain searches. I learned that the number of people who visit a webpage plays a large role in its placing within the lists of sites.