I have some students who are looking for background reading on how the Google search algorithms work. Any suggestions here would be most welcome.
I would recommend: Feuz, Martin, Fuller, Matthew, AND Stalder, Felix. "Personal Web searching in the age of semantic capitalism: Diagnosing the mechanisms of personalisation" First Monday [Online], Volume 16 Number 2 (1 February 2011) http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3344/... and “Google’s PageRank Algorithm: A Diagram of Cognitive Capitalism and the Rentier of the Common Intellect”, in Konrad Becker, Felix Stalder (eds), Deep Search, London: Transaction Publishers: 2009. +PDF http://matteopasquinelli.com/docs/Pasquinelli_PageRank.pdf and Hard-Coding Bias in Google "Algorithmic" Search Results http://www.benedelman.org/hardcoding/ Best, Anne