Chris Nolan Presentation

During Mr. Nolan’s presentation, I learned a tremendous amount about using Google to its full extent. Before the presentation, I had no idea that there is an “advanced search” button you can use to filter and sort your results, making Google searches much more useful. With the advanced search features, you can filter your search results to site type, so you can eliminate annoying “.coms” from your results if you are searching for something academic. I also learned that different countries have specific country codes for their websites, and that you can look for Google search results from specific countries. I was also surprised to find out that you can search for scholarly articles on Google by using Google scholar. Before discovering this, I always considered Google to be an unreliable resource when doing academic work. Now I can use Google when looking up scholarly articles, along with Academic Search Complete and the other library databases. I also learned some good web-site evaluating techniques from Mr. Nolan’s presentation, such as checking who the creators of websites are. I was very surprised to learn that martinluthering.org is actually a white supremacist web site. If someone were to quickly glance at the website, they might believe that it is a legitimate website offering information about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. However, a closer look reveals that the creator of the website is a white supremacist group and the content of the website is racist and bigoted.