Response to Chris Nolan's Presentation

I learned several good bits of information from Chris Nolan’s presentation and a few interesting facts as well. In the future, I will probably benefit from learning about Google Scholar and INFOMINE the most. Prior to the presentation, I did not even know what directories were and how they granted access to good academic databases. The fact that Google can be operated in Piglatin surprised me, but then again, I am sure that there are some people out there that would use Google over another search engine solely because they can read “Searrrrch in Pirate language instead of the regular “Search”. For fun, I will probably choose a Google language, especially when I am not doing homework. The Instructions on how to search with custom specifications was helpful too. For example, typing “define” before a word in a search brings up websites that define that term. As usual, I like to know how systems function, so it was interesting to know that Google gives high placement to websites that have been linked to by many other websites. It is logical in the sense that websites visited the most are not necessarily the most credible, but if other websites have set up links to it, then there is a good chance for there to be verifiable information on the site. I was also unaware that Google contains a cached image of websites in its database and that the cached page can be viewed if the website is down.