Chris Nolan's lecture on effective web researching was particularly helpful to me. I came to realize several faults in my own researching habits and found out new ways to make searching the web more efficient.
Mr. Nolan explained that the popular search engine Google reaps all of its profit from selling advertising space. Because of this, Google orders its search results according to how popular certain sights are or how much money the sites pay for advertising. Accordingly, the first few search results can be very poorly accredited resources that simply pay more for advertising.
Mr. Nolan touched on the topic of government-sponsored websites as well. It stands to reason that certain topics on government websites can be tailored or tainted to promote the platforms of current political leaders. Similarly, one must take into account that websites produced by organizations are intended to be rhetorically convincing for their cause. Both .govs and .orgs must be approached with caution because they will undoubtedly contain biased content, which can be beneficial or detrimental to research.
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It's amazing how websites can be deceiving. But we've got the tools to be critical reader!
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