Chris Nolan

In today's presentation from Chris Nolan, I learned many different things that I had not yet known, or that I had forgotten about since I first learned them a long time ago. For example, the fact that Google highlights words from your search in the titles of the articles that appear, or the fact that ".com" means commercial at the end of a url. Another thing that I learned was that scholarly material has references and sources for more articles at the end of the article in which is being presented, while popular sources do not. The final thing that I had learned was the use of the cached button under the website link. Chris Nolan showed us that we get a copy of Google’s link to that page, and in Google’s copy the terms that pertain to our search are highlighted. The cached page is also good for finding recent statements inside your article if there is a lot of traffic and extra stuff on the website. One thing that surprised me was that companies pay to have their link show up on the right side of their webpage. I thought they just picked random companies to show up, or the most popular sites that are found relating to your search topic.