Monday, March 17, 2008

Searching the Internet

Chris Nolan's presentation taught me a lot about effective ways of searching the internet. I learned how to limit the domain of a search just by adding a few extra words and characters into the search bar. For example, if I wanted to search for only sites with .gov at the end of the url i could just by adding site: .gov in the search bar after the subject. The highlighted tool, cached, surprised me. I never knew about this and I think that if I did know about this tool then I could have followed through some of my researching for papers much more efficiently. Evaluating some of the sites in class was fun. I thought the MLK site was a very good example of a false internet site. The evaluation points that were given to us is a very useful piece of information that I plan on looking at in future researching.

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