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Trust Online: Young Adults’ Evaluation of Web Content, by Eszter Hargittai, Lindsay Fullerton, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Kristin Yates Thomas. International Journal of Communication, Vol 4 (2010) “Little of the work on online credibility assessment has considered how the information-seeking process figures into the final evaluation of content people encounter. Using unique data about how a diverse …
Pew Internet: Reputation Management and Social Media – How people monitor their identity and search for others online by Mary Madden, Aaron Smith, May 26, 2010 “More than half (57%) of adult internet users say they have used a search engine to look up their name and see what information was available about them online, …
Via Google Blogscoped: “Perhaps bad news for the traffic of dictionary sites, which often dont show the actual word definition in the search engine snippets: Google now has a onebox of their own immediately offering the definition(s) for certain words youre searching for. Try enter e.g. pleasant into Google.com and the top will read: pleas·ant/ˈplezənt/Adjective …
Exclusive – Google, CIA Invest in Future of Web Monitoring, By Noah Shachtman, July 28, 2010: “The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it …
Follow up to Several State Attorneys General Announce Probes of Google Wireless Data Collection, this news release: “Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today on behalf of the executive committee of a 38-state coalition asked Google whether it tested its Street View software before use — which should have revealed that the program collected data transmitted over …
Follow up to previous postings on climate change, UK Mail Online: “A Google Earth map that shows the potential impacts of global temperature rises of 4C was unveiled by scientists and ministers [from the Foreign Office (FCO) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc)]…The interactive map lets the public see what could happen …
Official Google Blog: “Over time weve improved search by deepening our understanding of queries and web pages. The web isnt merely wordsits information about things in the real world, and understanding the relationships between real-world entities can help us deliver relevant information more quickly. Today, weve acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains an open database …
The Demographics of Web Search, Weber, I.; Castillo, C. SIGIR, ACM Press, Geneva, Switzerland (2010) “How does the web search behavior of “rich” and “poor” people differ? Do men and women tend to click on different results for the same query? What are some queries almost exclusively issued by African Americans? These are some of …
Official Google Blog: “Today were revamping the Google News homepage with several changes designed to make the news that you see more relevant to you. Were also trying to better highlight interesting stories you didnt know existed and to make it easier for you to share stories through social networks…The new heart of the homepage …
MapQuest Blog: “…we are launching a new user experience on MapQuest and updating our brand to reflect our new direction. We thoughtfully redesigned MapQuest.com to be more helpful, intuitive and engaging where the entire experience is within view and contextually relevant throughout…One of the most obvious changes you will notice in the redesign is the …
Basic Legal Research on the Internet: This article explores the corner of the Internet landscape that concentrates on legal research. For the most part, these databases and search tools are free, although some might require a library card. Essentially, this is a short list of “go to” sites that most researchers will find useful. Before …
Employment Online Resources – This guide for researchers by Marcus P. Zillman is a comprehensive bibliography of resources and sites comprising the latest and most comprehensive, reliable content and value added information currently available on this subject via the Internet.
