GoOgLE

When I have done research projects, I often get frustrated with the results that dear old Google provides. However, today I learned that the way Google finds what you're looking for causes many of those great scholarly and thorough articles to be towards the bottom of the page where many, including myself, usually never bother to look at. This is due to the fact that Google uses one criteria, as well as many others, to put the more "relevant" sites at the top - the frequency that such a site is visited. One example of this phenomenon can be seen when searching, let's say, for the biography of a particular individual. Wikipedia tends to come up first. Why? Because it is a site that is often visited.