I thought I knew as much as I needed to know about search engines, particularly Google, but Chris Nolan showed me so many other advantages of search engines that I had no idea existed.
One thing that I didn't know is that if a webpage you are trying to get to through google isn't working for some reason --maybe its busy or under maitenance or something-- you can click "Cached" next to the link to the website to see Google's copy of the webpage. On this page you are able to see all the key words you are searching highlighted in the document from when google catalogued the site.
When Chris said that more academicly accurate articles are found at the bottom of the first page of search results and on to the second page it surprised me. I had always just trusted the top hits. But it made so much sense when he described why: the top hits are the most popular basic sites and the sites lower down on the results list are more scientifically correct. Most people aren't trying to write a research paper so they need the most basic information and would probably get frustrated trying to understand a lot of high level academic or scientific jargon.
All in all I was really glad to hear what Chris Nolan had to say because now my research will be much easier.
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