Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Friday, May 12, 2006
In Google we trust: Information integrity in the digital age - Lee Shaker, First Monday
On any given day, more than 60 million American adults use an online search engine — a number that is rapidly increasing. Among search engines, Google is visited the most — by as many as 89.8 million unique visitors in one month (Rainie, 2005). Google’s rising traffic, continuing development of successful business models, and improving accuracy and depth has significant implications for the way that the Internet is experienced and organized. Beyond this, as Google grows entrenched as a central hub of Internet use, the company’s role as an arbiter of information becomes increasingly important.

 



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