Chris Nolan Presentation

I learned a lot during Chris Nolan's presentation, especially about the Google search engine. The things I learned will be very helpful in research projects to come. Previously when using Google, I would simply enter a search term and browse through the results to find an appropriate one. The first tip that I found very interesting was the more menu where you could sort the results by books or scholarly material. Teachers are always saying that the sources used need to be scholarly, and this is a good way of making sure of that. A second tip that I found very helpful was the "show options" menu that allows you to sort your results by timeline or by being close to your location. A final thing that I found very useful was sorting by government sites or school sites in the advanced search menu. You can limit you search results to .edu or .gov websites as well as many more options. This again is a good way to limit results to usable material.
One thing that I found particularly surprising was that when limiting the search results to books, there is a link next to the website that says if it is in Trinity's catalog or if Trinity has that book. This is extremely helpful and was something that I had no idea that Google did.