I am Hernando Cortez-Bowser Flowers. Currently, I am a BBA Senior concentrating in Marketing and Management & Organizations. Upon graduation I will commission into the United States Army as a 2nd Lieutenant. Outside of the B-School I am a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Army ROTC, N.V.R. Flo Dance Team, and a load of other clubs and organizations.
I'm in this class to learn how to effectively and efficiently search for information, thereby allowing me to become more of an asset to any group or team that I'm a part of.
I joined the program in search of a degree that will always be useful no matter the times. Also, from a young age, I was always taught the importance of business knowledge and investments, and I wanted to continue my growth in those regards.
My hobbies include exercising, playing basketball, dancing, and the military.

I was hoping to write a blog entry about the "exploring connections" class, but there is no "blog entry" opportunity on the schedule. Are we permitted to write a blog on this class? I wanted to make sure before I wrote one.

Thanks,
Bryan

If I search for [michigan basketball], I come up 8th.

But if I search for [michigan basketball blog] (I come up first) and then I search for [michigan basketball] (in the same browser window) I come up 3rd instead of 8th.

This is most likely some sort of glitch, maybe even with my cache, but I found it very odd. Has anyone else ever noticed anything like this?

Thanks

Try Google 2001

Have a good weekend everyone!

I am schedule to complete my Google industry update on the 15th of October. As it turns out, that week is the busiest week ever for me (5 interviews, 2 midterms, and a presentation). So, I would prefer to complete the industry update a week before, when I have time. Does this defeat the purpose of an industry update (doing it a week ahead of time)? Should I just move my name on the schedule page to a later date?

Thanks!
Bryan

For some reason the Excel file with the class data will not open – I get a zipped file full of xlm files that look like nothing (a bunch of references to http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/mac/excel/2008/main - ???) when try to open them with Excel…

I’m using Vista with Office 2007.

Any ideas?

Just wanted to let you know that I BELIEVE there is a minor error in the Search tool overlap data collection page. I believe the 7th column of data should read "o(5,20)" as opposed to "o(5,10)". This holds true in all the tables.

Thanks,
Bryan

Someone help me out here? What am I missing?

My name is Brian Hendricks and I am a BBA Junior studying Marketing and BIT. I am interested in sports, hiking, trying new foods, traveling, meditating, and collecting board games. When I am not in class, I am Microsoft's Student-Partner for Michigan, the Online Editor for the Monroe Street Journal, member of the Marketing and Toastmasters clubs, webmaster for Phi Chi Theta business fraternity, and a brother of Sigma Phi Epsilon.

This summer I worked at a consulting firm in Virginia started by former Microsoft executives and is exclusively focused on strategy and execution services for Software-as-a-Service applications. The sales process of SaaS applications is "Search, Click, Try, Buy" - you can't try or buy an online application until you find it. Thus, understanding search and finding information is crucial to creating a successful SaaS application.

Despite my technology interests and backgrounds, I unfortunately am just like the millions of people who just fire up Google when they want to find something (or IMDB if its about movies/shows). I read news from the same 5-6 websites each day simply because I don't take the time to find information from other sources. Hopefully this class will automate that process and expand my news sources. More importantly, before you can find a piece of information to analyze/use in an assignment you have to find it - this class will help me find **relevant **information efficiently and quickly.

-Brian