Chris Nolan

Last Tuesday Chris Nolan, who works in the Trinity library, came to class and gave us an lecture about using search engines such as Google and Bing. He asked the class what search engine everyone used, and when almost everyone said Google, he showed us a bar graph that said that something like 70% of people on the internet use Google, followed by Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask, and AOL. He focused the rest of the lecture mostly on Google, which was understandable given what we had just learned. There are so many things about Google that I didn't know before this lecture, like how to modify your search to narrow down what resources come up, that the first links that come up are ordered by relevance, but the most interesting thing I found out was what that the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button is what you press so Google takes you directly to the link that would be first if you had just clicked the "Search" button. I thought this was so interesting because I use Google a lot and I had always seen that, but I didn't know what it meant until last Tuesday.