Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design

Alejandro Diaz, a grad student at Stanford University in Communications (with a BA in Computer Science), has written an excellent (and nearly 200-page) honors thesis entitled "Through the Google Goggles: The Sociopolitics of Search Engine Design" [pdf]. Here is the…

Google as Library or Neutral Source of Information? Perhaps neither…

Siva Vaidhyanathan has been engaged in a lengthy discussion regarding Google's recent decision to slow down their Google Print Library project. Much of the conversations have centered on whether Google should be considered a library. This response from Eileen Snyder,…

Google Library vs. Google Print

The Google Library and Google Print projects seem to be confronting each other. TechDirt points to this article detailing the collision of these two different book scanning projects, and the court battle that might ensue. It's worth a read.