Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Google!

I have used google so many times in high school as my main search engine. Right after I came to Trinity most of my instructors descouraged me from using Google. The reason behind it's because it does not contain scholarly articles. After Chris Nolan's presentation I found out that I could actually use google to get scholarly articles, I was so surprised. I learned Google can be used to find scholarly articles via Google scholar. Google scholar mostly contains scholarly articles that cannot be found on the normal google web page. The normal google web page contains articles that are popular among people and those from websites that are mostly ranked, these articles may not necessarily be eduactional though you may have typed in an eduactional term. The schoalrly articles are placed on the last pages or on Google scholar since not so many people understand them. Therefore, when I'm doing a research and I want to use google I can actually use google scholar and I won't get in trouble with my professors.
I was surprised that besides the use of Google scholar to find scholarly articles, the normal google page can also be used to find important articles by limiting the results to what you are looking for. If a term is typed on google search there could a million results of which some of them are not related to the topic. You can actually limit the number of results, language, file format and the information you want to be contained in the in the article by using a plus sign or minus sign if you want to omit the information from your search results. This could be useful since only relevant articles will be provided.

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