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Web Dragons: Inside the Myths of Search Engine Technology

Web Dragons: Inside the Myths of Search Engine Technology

Gori, Marco
Numerico, Teresa
Witten, Ian H.

Paperback

Series: The Morgan Kaufmann Multimedia Information and Systems

DatabasesGeneral ComputersSystem Administration

ISBN10: 0123706092
ISBN13: 9780123706096
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publ Inc
Published: Nov 1 2006
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.65 Width: 7.46 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

Web Dragons offers a perspective on the world of Web search and the effects of search engines and information availability on the present and future world.

In the blink of an eye since the turn of the millennium, the lives of people who work with information have been utterly transformed. Everything we need to know is on the web. It's where we learn and play, shop and do business, keep up with old friends and meet new ones. Search engines make it possible for us to find the stuff we need to know. Search engines -- web dragons -- are the portals through which we access society's treasure trove of information. How do they stack up against librarians, the gatekeepers over centuries past? What role will libraries play in a world whose information is ruled by the web? How is the web organized? Who controls its contents, and how do they do it? How do search engines work? How can web visibility be exploited by those who want to sell us their wares? What's coming tomorrow, and can we influence it?

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