Defining the Web: The politics of search engines

Computer

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 54-62

  Introna, Lucas ^a   Nissenbaum, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; ONLINE SEARCHING; SEARCH ENGINES;

METADATA; PARETO'S LAW;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0033639851     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2.816269     Document Type: Article

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