During this first part of our course, we have studied search engines, their underlying mechanism, characteristics and some of the potential implications on individuals and society of their manipulation.
The topics that we have covered include:
• Basic knowledge of the Internet, servers and clients, protocols, data packets, IP, DNS.
• The nature of search engines, indexing algorithms, what makes a search engine better than others.
• Validating sources.
• Privacy issues, privacy policies from search engines.
• A brief glimpse into the nature of search engine algorithms. Search Engine Optimization. Pagerank. Google bombing.
• How search engines can be manipulated and their potential effects on individuals and society.
• Mulltimedia Search Engines and the future of esrach engines.
• User constructed search engine queries.
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