Internet Research

I think the presentation was very helpful because effective internet research can cut down time spent on wading through sources that aren't academic or reliable. I learned that many sites that Google pulls up are linked to other websites, and popularity is one of the main factors when it comes to which websites are higher up on the list, not necessarily just the number of times the key words from the search appear. I don't use advanced searches very much, although Google scholar can be helpful when looking for information about a well-known topic. I usually use the library databases when I need to look through academic journals, but I didn't know Google scholar could pull up some of the same ones. The links from the presentation in class also offer some more researching tools.