Chris Nolan Presentation

I was really impressed by Chris Nolan's presentation. I found his information about research and search engines in general to be pretty relevant to requirements for many of my classes here in Trinity. I just wish he would have made this presentation sooner.
I have always known about google as a powerful tool for research and have utilized it for conducting research for many classes even from high school. The library department at my High School also introduced me (along with my fellow classmates) to google scholar as a means of finding research from academic sources. This is really important because at an institution of higher learning (such as Trinity) the credibility of one’s sources can be called into question. Google Scholar makes that a non issue as it filters result to articles from scholarly sources only.
I was pretty impressed with the filters available on google. It enables one to filter results pertinent to only the results they desire. Searching can be made more specific by wrapping search terms around quotations. I was also really surprised at how results for the same search were displayed on google versus yahoo, for example. I will definitely take Chris’ suggestion to switch between search engines if one is not producing the desired result.