Chris Nolan

Since I was gone on Thursday because of a soccer trip, I happen to miss out on a very informative lecture by Chris Nolan to the rest of the class. I have read a few of my classmates blog’s and have noticed that the common theme that he lectured about was about search engines, especially Google, as well as URL’s and the significance from them. I learned from reading that the internet that was once dominated by the likes of Yahoo and AOL has been overtaken by the Google phenomenon. Many people prefer Google over any other search engine. I also learned how search engine actually works. There are many factors that influence the actual search like frequency of words and popularity if the sites that appear. It is very interesting many factors go into a search to find the best website for you. In reading other blogs, I learned that the domain names actually can have more validity than others, such as “.edu” and “.gov”. To show there validity the scholarly sources place, throughout their articles, different links to resources that they used while conducting their research. I found reading these different blogs very interesting and only wish that I could have been there to hear the lecture myself.