At 12:01 -0400 10/6/02, Nicole Isaacson wrote:
Perhaps the list can give me some suggestions for discovering more about the politics and ideological approaches of specific search engines. I'm familiar with Hargittai's work on channeling content online as well as Introna and Nissenbaum's research on the general politics of search engines. However, does anyone have any knowledge/references about the specific ideologies and politics that affect how search engines such as google, excite, goaskjeeves and yahoo index particular web sites?
jill walker http://cmc.uib.no/jill has written a short paper for this years hypertext conference on the politics of links and search engines. she has info about this on her blog. cheers adrian miles -- + lecturer in new media and cinema studies [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vlog] + interactive desktop video developer [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/] + hypertext rmit [http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au] + InterMedia:UiB. university of bergen [http://www.intermedia.uib.no]