Mr. Nolan's Lecture

I learned many things from Mr. Nolan's lecture that i never knew about using search engines. I found it interesting when he told us that people search more in Microsoft then at Ask.com. I never even knew that Microsoft had a search engine! What was also cool was when he showed us that you are able to compare search results between Google and Yahoo. This could be very useful especially if you do not find exactly what you are looking immediately, the other might be able to provide it for you since they use different algorithms in getting their search results.
I also learned about what the endings to websites mean. For example ".org" means that it is a nonprofit organization and their are many different agendas these organizations can have, so before relying on such sites it is important to check their purpose, which can usually be found on the site. Even though I already knew that ".gov" meant that it was a government website, Mr. Allen pointed out that these are not always reliable too because they can have biased or censured information, which surprised me. The best way to get viable information from a search engine is to look for scholarly articles, which Google makes particularly easy since you can limit your search for only these things.
The most interesting thing I learned from Mr. Nolan was that you can search in Google in different languages such as pig latin, or even Pirate talk! This is not necessarily helpful but it is really cool and could be fun if you are bored. Here is one that is for Elmer Fudd, http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/.