Desperately seeking the consumer: Personalized search engines and the commercial exploitation of user data

First Monday

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Rohle, Theo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 34548666628     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v12i9.2008     Document Type: Article

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