eliokh Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Hello all, i'll be writing a term paper about search engines for my computer ethics course. Here are the topics im thinking of including: The Search Engines War I. Introduction. II. Definition and history of search engines. III. How do search engines work? 1. Web crawling 2. Indexing 3. Searching IV. The war 1. Global Market Shares. 2. Lebanese Market Shares. V. Web search and privacy. 1. Search Logs. 2. Targeted Advertisements. VI. Are search engines bias? VII. Conclusion Please note that the term paper will include a survey done on campus. Does anyone have any suggestions? More topics I could add? A (funny?) attractive title? thank you in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amon91 Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 Title: I Googled Bing. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliokh Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share Posted March 17, 2011 Title: I Googled Bing. :p hahahhahahahaha loool But that would be so bias Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliokh Posted March 17, 2011 Author Share Posted March 17, 2011 any more suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charisma Veteran Posted March 17, 2011 Veteran Share Posted March 17, 2011 any more suggestions? "I Binged Google", then? haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omen1393 Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 On whether or not search engines are bias, you could mention how Bing has partnered with certain sites to create tiles for well known sites like Wikipedia nad Youtube, you could also mention how Microsoft tries to keep you in the Bing interface with their tabs UI concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen Smith Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 How about legality, DMCA and all that? Sooner or later the MPAA/etc is going after them. I'm not saying good or bad, but I can get the same results from Google as I can "WhateverWarezSite.com" and pick up some torrent or direct download links. Why is one site illegal while another one isn't, even though giving the same results? That sort of thing. Oh, and +1 for the "I Googled Bing" title, catchy :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrA Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 How about legality, DMCA and all that? Sooner or later the MPAA/etc is going after them. I'm not saying good or bad, but I can get the same results from Google as I can "WhateverWarezSite.com" and pick up some torrent or direct download links. Why is one site illegal while another one isn't, even though giving the same results? That sort of thing. Oh, and +1 for the "I Googled Bing" title, catchy :D This is a complicated topic. See the "safe harbour" section of the DMCA. Basically, Google/Bing act in "good faith", taking action on DMCA notices in a timely fashion, therefore they aren't liable for indexing infringing content. Also, they don't target that content specifically, whereas "RandomWarezSite.com" actively pursues that content and promotes copyright infringement. @OP: For your paper, you should keep the sections on how search engines work extremely light for two reasons. Firstly, since your paper in on ethics, you shouldn't really care about how the technology works, just what it does. Secondly, no matter what you write, chances are you'll be extremely inaccurate. Seemingly simple topics such as following links to crawl are very complex processes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usenetfriend Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Here is another one search engine for torrents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted December 18, 2012 Member Share Posted December 18, 2012 How search sucks? No matter what search engine you use most of the links are useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 well for starters, NEVER mix roman numbers with normal numbers use iv.i iv.ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 How search sucks? No matter what search engine you use most of the links are useless. Hey, I've found poRn :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Hey, I've found poRn :p Really? how :shifty: ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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