CSC 379 SUM2008:Week 2, Group 3

Search Engines

Search engines fill an important role in our lives, helping us locate information within a wide array of multimedia. However many ethical considerations are involved in their operation; the ordering of rankings, the range of content indexed (or not), and how advertisements are incorporated, are a few. Broadly examine the ethics of search engine operation and use.

• http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/003/003_hinman.pdf
• http://www.i-r-i-e.net/inhalt/003/003_editorial.pdf
• http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/04/usfunded-health-sear.html
• http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/submitted/search-engine-panel.html