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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...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 11; pp. 67 - 73
Main Authors: VOGL, PATRICK, BARRETT, MICHAEL
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2010
Subjects:
Web search engines
Government regulation
Algorithms
Mathematical optimization
Table manipulation (Computer science)
Freedom of speech
Government policy
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