Google is an amazing resource for many things you want to know. You can look
up the score of sports games, find different articles about whatever interests you, or even
find games to play in a period of boredom. For writing an important paper however,
Google can be counterproductive.
Although Google has a massive amount of information for your use, anybody can
post anything on Google. This makes many of the sources someone would find on the
first page questionable in accuracy. If you want the most accurate and most relevant
sources for a paper, then Google is not the way to go. Because it is an online source
engine open to the entire world, key words can result in over millions of sources that are
found based only on the relevance of one word in the search. Google is simply not a
reliable source for the totality of your accuracy on a paper. It is smarter to use a trusted
source like a library database.
Doing these assignments will help my upcoming presentation quite a bit. I was
only using Google for my research, and it was frustrating finding completely irrelevant
things on the first page. Now that I have done these assignments, I know to go directly to
the Albany Library site and look for a database that pertains to my topic of interest. This
will bring up many options for me to find information and come up with the most
accurate and relevant information for my topic. I can limit the types of information I
want, I can limit the dates they were published for relevance, and I can know that the
information I’m seeing is approved and accurate.