nisaacson@sociology.rutgers.edu 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?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Nicole Isaacson, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow Social Science Research Council nisaacson@sociology.rutgers.edu
I think that Google uses a number of approaches that come from the recommender systems literature (and associated patents). In regards to incoming links. This strikes me as a particular social perspective as does social / collaborative filtering in general. Quentin