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Saturday, October 08, 2005
Commercial v. non-commercial search engines
Bettina Fabos, The Commercial Search Engine Industry and Alternatives to the Oligopoly , MOKK (Media Research Center at the Department of Sociology and Communications of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics), n.d.
Abstract: This essay details the search engine industry’s transformation into an advertising oligopoly. It discusses how librarians, educators, archivists, activists, and citizens, many of whom are the guardians of indispensable noncommercial websites and portals, can band together against a sea of advertising interests and powerful and increasingly overwhelming online marketing strategies.
From the body of the paper: Google, Yahoo and MSN...are skewing the nature of all online information in favor of commercial enterprise, and will have enormous impact and power over the direction of information access and, indeed, democratic discourse, in the years to come....Despite the considerable implications of search"
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