Unlimited Research Lessons (URL)

Chris Nolan gave an excellent presentation in class helping me familiarize myself with the search advancements of Google. I have been an avid Google search follower for the later half of my life, and from the presentation I learned that the "I'm Feeling Lucky," search means that whatever you search the first Google listing page will be pulled up and you will be directed towards it. I also thought that Google listed its link by popularity, or number of hits on the site. I found out that in a way it is like popularity because the number list is number of web pages linked to the sites, unless it is a sponsored link which means that web site has paid Google to put them as a first link. I also learned that different countries had their own . endings which I had not really ever paid attention enough to to know. For example Mexico is .mx and the Netherlands is .nl. The most common to you and me is .com .org and .edu these are affiliated with America. The most interesting fact that I learned from Mr. Nolan was that in Google you can type in the word : definition and the definition of the word will show up where you usually see links.