Last class, Chris Nolan, Assistant University Librarian at Trinity University's Coates Library gave a presentation that concentrated on commonly used search engines and the information that can be found with their usage.
Something new that I learned pertained to the order that results are displayed after a search is conducted. How can one website appear on the first page of results when another is on page fifty-three? Mr. Nolan said that this can occur if a website puts a common search term in their encoding, or fills their first paragraph with words that are common search terms but unrelated to the site's actual purpose.
The most surprising thing he said was that when a search is conducted, the results showing up may not be a website, but could be information on a spreadsheet or another document saved onto a computer. The search engine is able to use those files and construct an answer in the form of a result webpage.
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