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Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
Dutton, William H.
Article
2017
In the early years of the internet, it was revolutionary to have a world of information just a click away from anyone, anywhere, anytime. Many hoped this inherently democratic technology could lead to...
'Fake news' or free speech: Is Google cracking down on left media?
Sheffield, Mathew
Article
2017
Left leaning progressive websites say they are being unfairly penalized by Google's efforts to stamp out fake news.
From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
Cook, Jonathan
Article
2017
Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their...
Google's Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
Niemuth, Niles
Article
2017
Recent remarks by the Executive Chairman of Google's parent company confirm charges that the company has been deliberately altering its search algorithms and taking other measures to prevent the publi...
Google's new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
Damon, Andre; North, David
Article
2017
New data suggests that the implementation of changes in Google's search evaluation protocols resulted in a massive loss of readership of socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites.
Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy
Eckersley, Peter; Schoen, Seth; Bankston, Kevin; Slater, Derek
Article
2006
Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great h...

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Going Beyond Google
The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching
Devine, Jane; Egger-Sider, Francine
2009
Looks at ways to teach Invisible Web research.
Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph
Adams, Tim
2013
An interview with the current head of Google Search, discussing some of the thought processes behind the current functionality of 'search' and some of its possibilites for the future.
Google's de-ranking of RT in search results is a form of censorship and blatant propaganda
Ryan, Danielle
2017
A commentary on the recent admission by an executive of Google's parent company (Alphabet) that special algorithms are being created to filter RTs news in order to make it appear less prominently in G...
List of search engines
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This is a list of Wikipedia articles about search engines, including web search engines, selection-based search engines, metasearch engines, desktop search tools, and web portals and vertical market w...
OCCRP Launches New Search Engine for Investigative Journalists
King, Tom
2016
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a non-profit network of investigative journalism centers in Europe and Eurasia, has launched a new data platform to enable journalists and...
Recommendations on the right to be forgotten
a Quadrature du Net and Reporters Without Borders
2014
On the problems for the protection of freedom of expression and the right to information posed by the right to be removed from search engine results and, more broadly, the right to be forgotten. Priva...
Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
Gallagher, Ryan
2013
Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups.

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IntelligentSearch.ca
Website
2017
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make ...