Tag Archives: search engines

qwiki – can linear narratives still be relevant in hyperlinked contexts?

Daniel Luiz dos Santos | 22 October 2011, 3:02 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Some time has passed since the official launch of qwiki (see the Masters of Media Blog initial impressions). Although still in alpha, a more profound critique can be put forward as the platform evolved and opened itself to users.

Book Review: The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan

Floris Spronk | 22 September 2011, 4:33 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

I’m a so-called Google poweruser. Not only do I use the world’s biggest search engine for my daily queries like millions of ‘normal’ mortals do, I also use Google for my pictures (Picasa), my agenda (Google Agenda), video’s (YouTube), documents (Google Docs) and, most importantly: my e-mail (Gmail). So when a book comes along entitled: The Googlization of Everything (And…

Social networks + SEO = Social SEO ?

Jesse Oyegbesan | 13 September 2011, 3:00 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sometimes the results of a search on Google, Bing or Yahoo are not really satisfying. If you search for specific terms sometimes the search results are very limited. Often only the first three search results give usable information. The search engines often only offer general information and less specific and academic content. Keeping in mind that search engines are not…

Book review: “Deep Search. The Politics of Search beyond Google”

Rosanne Sliuzas | 19 September 2010, 12:58 pm | tags: , , , , ,

It is hard to imagine life without search engines. Information is everywhere and we seem to need it all the time. So the importance of being able to access all information at any particular time of our choosing cannot be underestimated. This speaks for itself. Or does it?

What’s a Good Online Dictionary?

Ashiq Khondker | 19 September 2010, 4:47 am | tags: , , , , ,


Every good scholar and samaritan comes across a new word throughout their life, so we’ve relied on dictionaries to aid us. Our lexical resources have evolved with our languages, and even in my life I’ve come to rely on the internet more often than the good old fat little paper dictionaries with their years-old dictionary smells you could flip through…

Google Takes Command: Shaping the Web

Harro Heijboer | 14 October 2009, 4:29 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Even though the web doesn’t have a central point, sometimes Google, or search engines in general, seem to form the center of this universe. Bringing together all these different websites into one database, ready to be searched. Google’s software, the algorithm, seems to be a aggregator, carrying out contextual analysis and grouping similar websites together. But Google’s search results are…

Book Review of: Search Engine Society – Alexander Halavais

Charlotte Hendriks | 14 September 2009, 11:35 pm | tags: , , , ,

In his 2009 published book “Search Engine Society”, Alexander Halavais looks at the impact of the phenomenon of search engines in the everyday online lives of Internet-using citizens around the world. Search engines have become a widely used component of the Internet experience. It should be no surprise then, that search engines are part of the academic discourse…

Future of Google @ Club of Amsterdam

Tjerk Timan | 01 November 2007, 6:17 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , ,

google 2084In a series of ‘future of’ events, the Club Of Amsterdam organized a future on Google symposium on the 25th of October at the Industrieele Groote Club. Four lecturers were invited to give their views on the history, status, and possible future scenarios of Google.
Also a discussion session was held, moderated by Simon Jones.

First up…