Search Engines and Navigating the Internet

Chris Nolan's presentation today was very informative and interesting. He demonstrated many new features of Google that I was not previously aware of. Some of the different features of the advanced search box are new things that I found. For example, you can use advanced search to narrow your search to search within a site or domain. For example if you wanted to search the noaa for information about hurricanes you could limit your search to only things within the website noaa.gov. You can even be specific by searching only sites with .edu, .org, .gov, etc. or you can exclude certain words in your search which can be used to limit and enhance your search. Something I learned that surprised me were the new options in the search box as well. The new options include searching for things that are geographically close, by the last time updated or using the timeline to show where certain information is by date on a certain topic. Google has come a long way in terms of a search engine, all of its features make it one of the most popular search engine on the web.