Web Search

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • A. Spink, M. Zimmer

      Pages 3-8

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3. Social, Cultural, and Philosophical Perspectives

   1. Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design

      • A. Diaz

      Pages 11-34

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   2. Reconsidering the Rhizome: A Textual Analysis of Web Search Engines as Gatekeepers of the Internet

      • A. Hess

      Pages 35-50

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   3. Exploring Gendered Notions: Gender, Job Hunting and Web Searches

      • R. M. Martey

      Pages 51-65

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   4. Searching Ethics: The Role of Search Engines in the Construction and Distribution of Knowledge

      • L. M. Hinman

      Pages 67-76

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   5. The Gaze of the Perfect Search Engine: Google as an Infrastructure of Dataveillance

      • M. Zimmer

      Pages 77-99

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4. Political, Legal, and Economic Perspectives

   1. Search Engine Liability for Copyright Infringement

      • B. Fitzgerald, D. O’Brien, A. Fitzgerald

      Pages 103-120

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   2. Search Engine Bias and the Demise of Search Engine Utopianism

      • E. Goldman

      Pages 121-133

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   3. The Democratizing Effects of Search Engine Use: On Chance Exposures and Organizational Hubs

      • A. Lev-On

      Pages 135-149

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   4. ‘Googling’ Terrorists: Are Northern Irish Terrorists Visible on Internet Search Engines?

      • P. Reilly

      Pages 151-175

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   5. The History of the Internet Search Engine: Navigational Media and the Traffic Commodity

      • E. Van Couvering

      Pages 177-206

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5. Information Behavior Perspectives

   1. Toward a Web Search Information Behavior Model

      • S. A. Knight, A. Spink

      Pages 209-234

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   2. Web Searching for Health: Theoretical Foundations and Connections to Health Related Outcomes

      • M. J. Dutta, G. D. Bodie

      Pages 235-254

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   3. Search Engines and Expertise about Global Issues: Well-defined Landscape or Undomesticated Wilderness?

      • J. Fry, S. Virkar, R. Schroeder

      Pages 255-275

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   4. Conceptual Models for Search Engines

      • D. G. Hendry, E. N. Efthimiadis

      Pages 277-307

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   5. Web Searching: A Quality Measurement Perspective

      • D. Lewandowski, N. Höchstötter

      Pages 309-340

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6. Conclusion

   1. Conclusions and Further Research

      • A. Spink, M. Zimmer

      Pages 343-347

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7. Back Matter

   Pages 349-351

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The inspiration for this book emerged from the editors’ participation in a panel d- cussion on Web search engines at an annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. This multidisciplinary panel of Web search researches revealed the diversity of scholars interested in Web searching, coupled with a broad range of questions, attitudes, and approaches. It became clear that more “cross-fertilization” was necessary between the disciplines to ensure Web search engines (the entities) and Web searching (the user behavior) received the thorough scholarly attention they deserved. This book is a result of that realization, and an important first step in achieving new levels of awareness and collaboration across disciplines. The book represents a core theme within the intellectual pursuits of the editors. The first editor (Spink) is an information scientist who has worked with, taught and has researched the informational dimensions of Web searching since 1997. The second editor (Zimmer) is a scholar of culture and communication who focuses on the political and ethical dimensions of new media and information technologies, and whose dissertation research focused on the value-related consequences of the quest for the “perfect” search engine.

• Cultural Studies
• Design
• Google
• Internet
• Search Engine Design
• Web
• Web Search Behavior
• Web Search Engines
• Web Search Quality
• communication
• gender
• navigation
• online
• utopia

• Faculty of Information Technology Gardens Point Campus, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

  Amanda Spink

• Information Society Project, Yale Law School, New Haven, USA

  Michael Zimmer

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