Last Thursday, Chris Nolan, the Assistant University Librarian came to talk to the class about how to find useful and high-quality information of the web. I thought I knew a lot about Google; however Mr. Nolan showed us some very cool things. For example, if one wanted to do a search on hurricanes, but wanted no information about Katrina, the user could type Hurricanes-(minus) Katrina. The minus sign tells Google to not find any information about Hurricane Katrina. I was also very surprised about “cached.” Google actually uses cache to temporarily store data before the webpage is updated!
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