Week 7 presentation
Research Area
- which industry
Search engine Industry
- Important
With the development of science and technology in the new media Industry, Search engines have become one of the important ways of searching information. It is found that about 400 million individual searches are launched on major search engines worldwide everyday. Search engines give uses access to Web Search, Image Search, Video Search, People Search and so on. So, search engine Industry is very important because it is not only the information industry, but also an entertainment and education industry.
Research Question:
How does search engine industry operate and how do most of search engine companies deal with the controversial problems?
I think the way of operation for most of search engine companies is selling advertisement space for business.
Besides, I think the controversial problems maybe related to internet privacy and most of search engine companies might make privacy policy to claim their rights and duties on using the information collected from other websites.
Resources
Sources- online articles, official documents of search engine companies, web page
google search engine, google.com, yahoo.au, Lycos.com
- where are you looking?
Looking at three companies:
Google:
Google Adwords is google’s advertising product.
Google, as a corporation that compiles information and makes it searchable via the Internet, has received criticism regarding issues such as intellectual property, internet privacy, and censorship.
Yahoo:
Yahoo advertises customer’s business in search results on Yahoo! And other sites.
Also made a policy to show the regulation of Information collection, use , sharing and disclosure.
Lycos:
Lycos Search, including Retriever, HotBot, and the Lycos Toolbar, is one of the oldest, and most recognizable, search engines in the world.
Lycos has always been pioneer in intelligent spidering search technology, combing its propriety technology with other best in class search services to pro vide a powerful and relevant search experience for users,
Lycos company made the Lycos Network Privacy Policy and explained how does the Lycos Network use the information it collects, especially personally identifiable information.
Issues/problems
- any probs you anticipate
It’s difficult to find academic sources.
- where to get help or assistance
Library
Brief findings
- what you’ve found already
Some documents related to privacy policy, some articles related to search engine industry and operate mode.
Timetable/plan?
- What timeline you working on for completing?
Before weekend ,it can be finished.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=adwords&cd=null&hl=zh-CN<mpl=regionala&passive=true&ifr=false&alwf=true&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fadwords.google.com%2Fselect%2Fgaiaauth%3Fapt%3DNone%26ugl%3Dtrue&medium=link&sourceid=awo&subid=ww-zh-CN-et-corp
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=adwords&cd=null&hl=zh-CN<mpl=regionala&passive=true&ifr=false&alwf=true&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fadwords.google.com%2Fselect%2Fgaiaauth%3Fapt%3DNone%26ugl%3Dtrue&medium=link&sourceid=awo&subid=ww-zh-CN-et-corp
