What I learned from Chris Nolan

I learned a lot of interesting things from Chris Nolan. Most of what I learned came from Google. This makes sense because Google is what I use the most when searching for websites for research papers and basically anything from school. I learned that there are differences between directories and search engines. Search engines are based on an algorythm and directories are just a compilation of information or in this case websites, and organized under different topics or names. I learned a little bit more about the Advanced Search option in Google and this is very useful when looking for specific information. I learned about Google Scholar too and how this can be even more helpful for research papers. It will only give me sholarly material and not just random, non important websites. He also talked about how the different top level domains can tell us a lot about the website. It can tell us things such as like if the website is governmental, or if it is an organization, etc.
Something that I found out. thought was really interesting to me, and that I didn't remember (if it is the case that I ever even knew about it) was that when looking for something in google, some websites have a "cashed" option. What this means is that google has an online copy of what the website contains. On top of that, the copy has the words we're looking for highlighted, which can definitely be very helpful when searching for a specific thing in the website.