Web search
Subtitle: multidisciplinary perspectives
By: Amanda Spink, Michael Zimmer, editors.
Contributors: Spink, Amanda.; Zimmer, Michael
Series: Information science and knowledge management -- v. 14.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9783540758280; 9783540758297
Subjects: Web search engines; Internet searching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / A. Spink and M. Zimmer; title: Through the Google goggles : sociopolitical bias in search engine design / A. Diaz; title: Reconsidering the rhizome : a textual analysis of Web search engines as gatekeepers of the internet / A. Hess; title: Exploring gendered notions : gender, job hunting, and web searches / R.M. Martey; title: Searching ethics : the role of search engines in the construction and distribution of knowledge / L.M. Hinman; title: The gaze of the perfect search engine : Google as an infrastructure of dataveillance /  M. Zimmer; title: Search engine liability for copyright infringement / B. Fitzgerald, D. O'Brien, and A. Fitzgerald; title: Search engine bias and the demise of search engine utopianism / E. Goldman; title: The democratizing effects of search engine use : on chance exposures and organizational hubs / A. Lev-On; title: 'Googling' terrorists: are Northern Irish terrorists visible on internet search engines? / P. Reilly.; title: The history of the internet search engine : navigational media and the traffic commodity / E. Van Couvering; title: Toward a Web search information behavior model / S.A. Knight and A. Spink; title: Web searching for health : theoretical foundations and connections to health related outcomes /; title: M.J. Dutta and G.D. Bodie -- Search engines and expertise about global issues : well-defined landscape or undomesticated wilderness? / J. Fry, S. Virkar, and R. Schroeder -- Conceptual models for search engines / D.G. Hendry and E.N. Efthimiadis -- Web searching : a quality measurement perspective /  D. Lewandowski and N. Höchstötter.