Chris Nolan's Visit

I learned a lot of useful information from Chris Nolan. The newest information I learned was about how Google ranked the lists of websites in a keyword search. The ranking of Google searches are based on word phrasing, the amount of key words in the title of the web page, and the number of times other sites and search engines link to that site. I never really understood how certain web pages got to the top of the Google list. I was very surprised how easy it was to put false information of a website that is on the top 5 Google ranking list. For example, Chris Nolan showed us the site www.martinlutherking.com. The site sounds legit and correct, however, when analyzing the information on the site, it was racist, false, and harmful. Other websites similar to this are Wikipedia. I learned that anyone can put any information on the site and if enough people believe it, the information becomes "true." I also learned about the "cache" feature of Google. It is basically a copy of the page. This is useful because if the web page is not working, you can always use the cache site to gather local information of the page. This is just a handful of things i learned from Chris Nolan.