Cross posting from my KMi blog (which has paragraph level...

Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool

By admin, December 4, 2012

Cross posting from my KMi blog (which has paragraph level commenting enabled to facilitate discussion). I’ve just read an article which explicitly considers the evaluation of search engines with respect to their epistemic functions under a social epistemological perspective. There’s a pre-print available http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/simpson/simpson_index.html and the citation is: Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool, Metaphilosophy [...]

Googling “9/11”: A cross-cultural comparison of suggestions for a loaded term

By admin, October 1, 2012

In my recent blog post I explained the politics of autocomplete, a feature that suggests queries while they are being typed. We may wonder how this is affected by the trend of creating tailor-made search engine results for specific audiences. How do Google´s suggestions differ from country to country (and language to language)? Methodology and [...]

The politics of autocomplete

By admin, September 20, 2012

In September 2010 Google introduced autocomplete (also Google Suggest) to its search engine. Based on previous queries, it tries to predict what we want to search for while we are still typing. How does this impact search engine usage and what to do the suggested queries tell us about our societies? Already now it is [...]

Posts Tagged: autocomplete

Evaluating Google as an Epistemic Tool

Googling “9/11”: A cross-cultural comparison of suggestions for a loaded term

The politics of autocomplete