In his discussion, we learned about searching for academic level info. on google, google tips and some very useful search directories. Many times when someone is searching for specific information on google a lot of the same information links come up everytime. This is because google has programmed it's search engines to sort by relevancy, words found in the title/text and how often the site is used, cited by other links and its ownership. Overall, we learned that there are over 250 characteristics used to rank relevancy. For google tips, there is a smaller link beneath the big search that says advanced search. Here, one can do specific searches controlling what domain they want to see along with using specific phrasing. Also, there is a down arrow beside the word more that can be used to specify scholarly sources. Other tips included using Cached sites (sites that are no longer visible but if searched and found on google they are still viewable in the original form) and using the word Define ... in the search engine (gives specific definitions). For the directory information, we learned that the directories like ipl.org, Internet Index, InfoMine and the Trinity Library, especially LibGuides, are all useful search sites.
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