I am pretty sure I can feel my brain growing from all the information I have been taking in over the semester. Cheesy, I know, but I am really being serious. Especially in Dissecting the Internet, there has been so many knew thing that I have learned this semester. Obviously, in this class, information about technology is taking over. Just when I think I am an expert on technology and the internet, some new, interesting information is thrown at me.
This week, the knowledge came in the form of a guest speaker of a marketing firm. This man's company specialized in helping companies website's to appear further up on the list of matches Google comes up with when an internet user searches for a certain type of business. I did not even know such firms existed, much less were a very widely-used corporate tool.
It was fascinating to see they ways Google chooses to order its matches for internet searches. I also was amazed by how much money Google receives from companies choosing to advertise their websites at the top of certain Google search results. During his group's book presentation, Merrick even mentioned some interesting information about the enormous sums of money Google rakes in from advertising.
Speaking of (or rather writing about) book presentations, two more groups presented the books that they read on Thursday. Although much of the information was similar to that which was discussed in other presentations, due to the similarity in book topics, I thought both groups did a good job at making their presentations original. The use of PowerPoint seemed very professional to me, and it helped to keep a steady flow and strong organization to the presentation. These two groups wrapped up the presentations. Now it is time to move more fully into working on the Annotated Bibliography.
I am curious to see what we will be discussing next week. It is a mystery for now! I am sure we will be notified soon enough via the wonderful Internet!
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