Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business
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Readings and Assignments
Assignment Schedule:- A1: Assigned Sept 24, due Oct 8
- A2: Assigned Oct 22, due Nov 5
- A3: Assigned Nov 7, due Nov 19
- Short paper/project: Assigned Nov 19, due Dec 16
| Week of Aug 27 | |
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Readings: Get a copy of the Battelle book | |
| Week of Sept 3 | No class (campus Holiday). |
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Readings: Chapters 1-2 of Battelle; review Week 1 lecture
notes, NYTimes article | |
| Week of Sept 10 | |
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Readings: none assigned.
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| Week of Sept 17 | |
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Readings: Chapters 3-4 of Battelle
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| Week of Sept 24 | |
Readings:
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| Week of Oct 1 | |
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Readings: Chapters 5-7 of Battelle.
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| Week of Oct 8 | |
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Readings: No readings assigned.
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| Week of Oct 15 | |
| Readings: Search Engine Users: Internet searchers are confident, satisfied and trusting -- but they are also unaware and naive, by Deborah Fallows, Pew Internet Research report, January 23, 2005. Search Privacy Practices: A Work in Progress, Center for Democracy and Technology Report, August 2007. Battelle Chapter 8. | |
| Week of Oct 22 | |
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Readings:
A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749, NYTimes, Aug 9,
2006.
Assignment
2 (Online version due at 9am on Nov 5; harcopy due in class.)
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| Week of Oct 29 | |
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No reading assigned.
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| Week of Nov 5 | |
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No reading assigned.
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| Week of Nov 12 | |
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Assignment
3 (Online version due at 9am on Nov 19; harcopy due in class.)
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| Week of Nov 19 | |
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No reading assigned. Final Project Proposal Assigned (Online version of project proposal due at 9am on Dec 3.) | |
| Week of Nov 26 | |
| Readings:
"An explanation of our
search results," Google, Inc. "It's Just the 'internet' Now", Wired Magazine (8/16/04). | |
| Week of Dec 3 | |
| Readings:
Battelle, Chapters 10 and 11.
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| Week of Dec 10 | |
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Work on final projects!
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| Dec 16 | |
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Final Projects
(Online version of project due at 9am on Dec 16.)
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