I would like to talk about the presentation my computer skills class had on February 24th, 2009 by Chris Nolan as known as "the right hand of Diane Graves."
It was about many search engines on the Internet such as Google and Yahoo.
ComScore website has rated different search engines in November 2008.
People use Google the most, then Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask, and AOL the least. The reason why there are some researches such as ComScore about search engines is because those search engines provide money to researches for advertising their websites.
Chris Nolan has provided information about Google when it first came out.
People could put only 100KB of information when putting information.
One of the most interesting information I gained was that popularity of search engines depends on how much people go back to the certain search engine website, not how much they search on the website.
Not only Google, but also some other search engines have an option of an advanced search so people can limit some websites since there are so many of them.
Google comes in pretty useful, but sometimes academic journals get buried. To put scholarly journals, it costs more and takes more effort.
Trinity University's Internet connection gives an option to students to look up the author and the full text if they want by clicking 'Trinity eText.'
To customize Google, Firefox is useful. Firefox add-on that adds other search engine links, suggests term, and eliminates cookie tracking.
There are several great tips that Chris Nolan has made in 2003 related to advanced search on Google. For example, to exclude a word, put minus sign (-) before the word or phrase with no intervening space. (ex: Ansel Adams Mexico - "New Mexico")
If you would like to see all the tips Chris Nolan provided, you can click the link below.
Thank you,
Hye-Won Kim.
hkim1@trinity.edu
Good information to remember :)
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