Yesterday, Chris Nolan visited our class and gave a very informative presentation on searching the Internet. The focus of his speech was on how we can find high quality information on the web. Today, a plethora of search engines are used by college students, including Google and Yahoo! Contrary to what many students think, the most popular web pages are not necessarily the most useful sites for research. Usually, they aren't even scholarly sources.
Before the presentation, I had no idea that Google Scholar, a search engine for scholarly articles, even existed. On Google's website, anyone can find high quality information for research assignments or for general knowledge by using this search engine located under the "more" link. One thing that surprised me was how easy it is to avoid commercial sites when using a search engine. For example, I can type in :.edu or :.gov after what I am searching for to seclude commercial sites from the relevant links that are found. Overall, the presentation was very helpful and the information I learned will help a lot for future assignments.
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