http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/wiggins/
Issues of Google
There always a problem with search engine that we facing is information overload. "The information on the Internet is growing so fast that busy professionals find it difficult and time consuming to find relevant publications, they often see the WEB as a time waster. " (Stephen Lockley) That is what the proffesor from the Newcastle University said.
For example, this is always happen in me while doing assignment by using search engine such as Google. After I type a keywords, there will have millions of result come out which is including uneccessarily thing as well.
Furthermore, Google is also always involve in copyright issue and privacy issue. In 20 September 2005, a case was happen againsts Google. A group that represent 8000 U.S authors were sue that Google had published their work without their permmision. (Amazines)
Beside that, Google has placed a cookie on each computer that can allowed others to track their findings in the history. (Wikipedia, 2008) In this case, the privacy issues will arise.
References list:
Amazines, viewed 8 November 2008,
<https://www.amazines.com/Criticism_of_Google_related.html>
Newcastle University, 2001, Researchers tackle search engine 'information overload', viewed 9 November 2008,
<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/content.phtml?ref=994673652>
University Libraries, Manuscripts Research Tutorial Glossary, viewed 9 November 2008,
<http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/manuscripts/glossary/>
Wikipedia, 2008, Criticism of google, viewed 9 November 2008,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google>
Richard W. Wiggins, The effects of september 11 on the leading search engine, viewed 9 September 2008,
<http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_10/wiggins/>
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