Searching

I’ve often wondered how Google’s results were ordered, as I’ve sometime notice that the results at top aren’t necessarily the most relevant to my search and sometimes results towards the middle or bottom of the page are. Now that I know of Google’s system called page rank, it makes sense and now I know that the search results at the top of the page are there because they got the most links back to them and not because there the most relevant. Before last week’s class I had never heard of a “Google bomb” or its uses, once again explaining the random results we sometimes get.

When searching I’ve learned that sometimes less is more. When searching in a database or in an library catalog too many words may lead to possible results being eliminated.

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