Open AccessFunction, Problems, and Regulation of Search Engines in the Internet
Author(s) -
Christoph Neuberger
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international review of information ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2563-5638
DOI - 10.29173/irie352
Subject(s) - the internet , search engine , function (biology) , world wide web , orientation (vector space) , advertising , information retrieval , computer science , political science , business , mathematics , geometry , evolutionary biology , biology
Search engines are the most used type of offer in the internet. However, they have hardly been analyzed yet in communications sciences. Most of all, search engines have an orientation function but at the moment are also increasingly significant as stores of information. Thus, the market leader Google in 2004 made an agreement with five big libraries on digitalizing 15 millions of books and documents. Particularly in France this announcement provoked reaction, as they said that a cultural inequality was to be feared if predominantly literature in the English language was made accessible in this way.