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Chris Nolan's presentation opened my eyes to the possibilities of google. I had no idea that Google had so many different applications. For example, Google Scholar, Google Maps, and Google News are just a few of Google's multitude of applications. I have been a Yahoo guy since thats what my first email account was through, and the search engines are pretty similar. However, Google does appear to have a vastly superior algarithm for finding results and I think I am going to switch over and start using it more often. The presentation taught me that minor reasearch on our part can not only tell us how credible a source is but it can also save us from potentially biased material. I had no idea that .com was signifigantly different than .org or .gov. Now I can use these endings to guide my searches depending on what I am looking for. Also, I was quite suprised to learn that different search engines give you drastically different results.Yahoo and Google were compared on a search dimenstration in class, and the vast majority of their results did not match up at all, and when the results did match up they were in much different orders. I always knew that websites were hit or miss and that often times they were not credible sources, but I never knew how to weed out these faulty websites when doing online reasearch. Now, with the information I learned from Chris Nolan's presentation, I know how to use Advanced Search, Google Scholar, and different combinations of key words to refine my searches and to eleminate the bad results.