The politics of search: A decade retrospective

Information Society

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 364-374

  Granka, Laura A ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Democracy; Diversity; Information retrieval; Internet search; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957786521     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2010.511560     Document Type: Article

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