Restricting the view and connecting the dots: Dangers of a web search engine monopoly

Everyone realizes how powerful the few big Web search engine companies have become, both in terms of financial resources due to soaring stock quotes and in terms of the still hidden value of the wealth of information available to them. Following the common belief that “information is power” the impl...

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Main Authors: Narayanan, Kulathuramaiyer, Balke, Wolf-Tilo
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Language:English
Published: Journal of Universal Computer Science 2006
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description Everyone realizes how powerful the few big Web search engine companies have become, both in terms of financial resources due to soaring stock quotes and in terms of the still hidden value of the wealth of information available to them. Following the common belief that “information is power” the implications of what the data collection of a de-facto monopolist in the field like Google could be used for should be obvious. However, user studies show that the real implications of what a company like Google can do, is already ...
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spelling unimas-5412016-04-12T06:43:15Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/541/ Restricting the view and connecting the dots: Dangers of a web search engine monopoly Narayanan, Kulathuramaiyer Balke, Wolf-Tilo H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General) Everyone realizes how powerful the few big Web search engine companies have become, both in terms of financial resources due to soaring stock quotes and in terms of the still hidden value of the wealth of information available to them. Following the common belief that “information is power” the implications of what the data collection of a de-facto monopolist in the field like Google could be used for should be obvious. However, user studies show that the real implications of what a company like Google can do, is already ... Journal of Universal Computer Science 2006 Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/541/1/Restricting_the_View_and_Connecting_the_Dots.pdf Narayanan, Kulathuramaiyer and Balke, Wolf-Tilo (2006) Restricting the view and connecting the dots: Dangers of a web search engine monopoly. Journal of Universal Computer Science, , 12 (12). pp. 1731-1740. ISSN 1695-1716
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
T Technology (General)
Narayanan, Kulathuramaiyer
Balke, Wolf-Tilo
Restricting the view and connecting the dots: Dangers of a web search engine monopoly
title Restricting the view and connecting the dots: Dangers of a web search engine monopoly
title_full Restricting the view and connecting the dots: Dangers of a web search engine monopoly
title_fullStr Restricting the view and connecting the dots: Dangers of a web search engine monopoly
title_full_unstemmed Restricting the view and connecting the dots: Dangers of a web search engine monopoly
title_short Restricting the view and connecting the dots: Dangers of a web search engine monopoly
title_sort restricting the view and connecting the dots: dangers of a web search engine monopoly
topic H Social Sciences (General)
T Technology (General)
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/541/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/541/1/Restricting_the_View_and_Connecting_the_Dots.pdf