Chris Nolan's Presentation

Though there is an infinite amount of information available to us on the internet, where do we even begin to go about finding what we want? And how do we know if it's the right source? These are very common and valid questions that Chris Nolan, the Trinity Librarian, adressed when in class.
Personally, I was surprised to learn that 59.80% of Americans use Google as their search engine. I am included in that statistic, but I didn't realize they controled over 1/2 the search engines. Following behind Goolgle is Yahoo (21.30%), Microsoft (9.40%), AOL (4.80%), and Ask (4.70%). The reason for Google's popularity was because they were the first ones to rank the results in order of relevance. This goes back to one of the questions at the top- how do we know if it's the right source? Google ranks its articles according to relevance.
Another interesting fact Chris Nolan tought us was Google's stand with advertisers. According to Google, Google gets all its money from companies that pay to have advertisement on the sides and top of the page, but advertisements never affect the ranking of websites. In fact, Google says that they will block websites that try to up their rankings by advertising themselves.