Search engines

The Web and its Wanderers...

The Web and its Wanderers

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, January 19, 2016

The Web and its Wanderers
The Effect of the List...

The Effect of the List

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, November 6, 2015

The Effect of the List
I, For One, Welcome Our New (Google) Overlords...

I, For One, Welcome Our New (Google) Overlords

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, June 1, 2015

I, For One, Welcome Our New (Google) Overlords

Society of the Query Magazine

By Miriam Rasch, June 6, 2014

  In dit magazine zijn tien van de artikelen uit de INC Reader Society of the Query: Reflections on Web Search bewerkt in het Nederlands, van verhelderende filmpjes en links voorzien en aangevuld met discussievragen. Veel van de auteurs spraken in november 2013 op de gelijknamige conferentie in Amsterdam. Op de website van Society of [...]

Society of the Query Reader: Reflections on Web Search

By INC Team, April 23, 2014

PDFs of all the articles can be downloaded separately from this page. Read the Introduction to the volume here. About the book: Looking up something online is one of the most common applications of the web. Whether with a laptop or smartphone, we search the web from wherever we are, at any given moment. ‘Googling’ [...]

TOD #13: The Dark Side of Google, Ippolita

By INC Team, October 4, 2013

  about this publication: In The Dark Side of Google Italian writers’ collective Ippolita provides a thorough, fresh analysis of what is behind the universe of Google and the metadata industry. In recent years Google has established itself as a major point of Internet access. We have progressively adapted to its sober, reassuring interface and [...]

Society of the Query #2 conference report

By INC Team, February 13, 2014

The Society of the Query #2 conference report offers an overview of the conference held November 7-8 2013 in Amsterdam. The file functions both as a summary and as archive of the project. It consists of the key results, the conference program, all conference blogposts and many other (research) blogposts concerning the topic of ‘online search [...]

Society of the Query: Stop Searching, Start Questioning

By INC Team, July 9, 2013

  With the Society of the Query conference – Stop Searching, Start Questioning -, the Institute of Network Cultures aimed to critically reflect on the information society and the dominant role of the search engine in our culture. What does this high dependency on search engines to manage the complex system of knowledge on the [...]