John Battelle posts his thoughts on the recent rash of search engine v. China incidents. He follows up on Yahoo's call for the search engines to band together and fight Chinese censorship of the web:So what to say about all…
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Yahoo! seeks help to fight China censors
Forbes is reporting that Yahoo is trying to form a coalition between the major web search engines (Google, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft) to work together to counter Chinese censorship on the web. And this Financial Times article notes that Yahoo! is…
Web Searching: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
I'm co-editing a book on web search engines with Amanda Spink (Professor of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology): CALL FOR PAPERS Web Searching: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Digital Formations Series. Peter Lang Publishing. Editors: Amanda Spink, Professor of Information Technology, Queensland…
Panel: The Ethics and Politics of Search Engines
Last summer, I had the great pleasure of attending a 2-week graduate student workshop on Values in Computer and Information System Design hosted by The Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University. A highlight was Terry Winograd's…
NYT: Increasingly, Internet’s Data Trail Leads to Court
The New York Times has an article today about the privacy of one's online intellectual activities and the increasing tendancy of ISPs and other online service providers to share that information with law enforcement (hopefully only when presented with a…
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More on Search Engine IP Logging
John Battelle did some digging for a reader who wondered whether Google (and search engines in general) could easily match search terms with IP addresses, and vice versa. Here are the questions Battelle bounced off his contacts at Google:"Given a…
NYT: Internet Users Thinking Twice Before a Search
Katie Hafner of the New York Times writes how some Internet users have changed their search habits now that concerns about government surveillance of web seaches has reached the forefront of the public mind. Among the many anecdotes related in…
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The Slipperly Slope of DOJ v. Google
Steven Levy's Newsweek article on the DOJ v. Google issue closes with a prescient warning of the slipper slope allowing government access to web search history would create:Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test,…
Wired News: How to Foil Search Engine Snoops
Given that concerns over search engine privacy have finally gone mainstream, Wired News provides a brielf article on How to Foil Search Engine Snoops. Check it out.
Patriot Search: Help the government by making your search activity public
In response to government efforts to access your search history. Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped provides the Patriot Search engine, which "allows you to help governments around the world by making your search activity public." Hilarious. I especially like its…
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