Chris Nolan

I thought Chris Nolan's presentation on how to find good research through the search engines was helpful. Learning about the little tricks to refine searches will help me save time and effort next time I'm researching a topic for a paper. 

I think the resources the library has set up are great, but the websites like Google and Ask.com is what I've grown up with. However, sometimes it takes FOREVER to get the right research. Chris Nolan taught us how to refine our searches using the tools offered by the search engines. Who would've thought? Adding quotation marks tells the site to look only for those together. Minus signs tells the site to look for certain words without other words. The cached key highlights where the words are on the website. This is helpful because it allows the reader to give the website a quick glance to see how relevant/helpful it would be. 

The advanced search key confused me before I knew what I did. This function allows you pick certain domains, phrases, and other specific information.

I've already put these helpful hints to practice. They will sure be a time saver!!