Are people biased in their use of search engines?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 49-52

  Keane, Mark T ^a,b   O'Brien, Maeve ^b   Smyth, Barry ^b,c  

^a School of Computer Science and Informatics

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c ChangingWorlds Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES;

KEY MANIPULATION; SYSTEMATICALLY REVERSED ORDER;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 38849115696     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1314215.1314224     Document Type: Article

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