Regulating the Information Gatekeepers.
The article discusses a perceived need for regulation concerning the methods through which online search engines rank Web sites. Search engines work by indexing the Web through crawler programs that utilize search algorithms to determine the most relevant results for a user’s query. The author urges...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 11; pp. 67 - 73 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Nov2010
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