I found the Chris Nolan lecture very interesting and informative. The “advanced search” option in Google was totally new to me but seems extremely helpful. By using this option, I can limit the parameters of my search therefore limiting the number of results I receive to links that I will most likely want to use. I learned that through this tool, I can choose the type of domain I want my results to come from. For example I can limit my search to .gov or simply completely eliminate .com’s. Another way to do this is by entering a minus in front of the site domain to narrow a search, this would look like (-site:.com). Another cool feature advanced search has is an option to limit languages. The “advanced search” allows me to choose language so I can just see websites in Spanish or eliminate websites in a language I cannot read such as Chinese. By using this option I can also choose to only see links with certain usage rights such as free to use/ modify/ect which can in turn protect me from copyright infringement. A portion of Chris’s speech that I found surprising was that all websites that end in .gov are not necessarily run by the federal government. 5% of these websites belong to different organizations that petition to use them and are therefore not always totally reliable.
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