Presentation by Chris Nolan

Last class period, Chris Nolan came to our class to speak about finding high quality information on the web. It was a very helpful presentation, and we learned a lot of new information. We learned that google is by far the most popular search engine, and learned some new things about the site. We learned that in order to choose the order in which the links appear on the site, google uses the collective wisdom of people who use the web.Google ranks the number of links that the website has from other pages, to figure out how high up the link should appear on your search. It also gives priority to certain types of websites such as CNN, that would be more of an authority on a certain subject. We also learned about another valuable academic source called google scholar which may help you find better sites for academic purposes. Mr. Nolan also taught us about the different domains such as .org and .edu, and how to narrow our searches down so that only certain domains appear. Lastly, we learned some skills to help us decide whether the sight we are viewing contains legitimate information.