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Web Dragons
Inside the Myths of Search Engine Technology
1st Edition - November 3, 2006
Authors: Ian H. Witten, Marco Gori, Teresa Numerico
Language: English
eBook ISBN:9780080469096
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Web Dragons offers a perspective on the world of Web search and the effects of search engines and information availability on the present and future world. In the blink of an eye…Read more
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Web Dragons offers a perspective on the world of Web search and the effects of search engines and information availability on the present and future world.
In the blink of an eye since the turn of the millennium, the lives of people who work with information have been utterly transformed. Everything we need to know is on the web. It's where we learn and play, shop and do business, keep up with old friends and meet new ones. Search engines make it possible for us to find the stuff we need to know. Search engines — web dragons — are the portals through which we access society's treasure trove of information. How do they stack up against librarians, the gatekeepers over centuries past? What role will libraries play in a world whose information is ruled by the web? How is the web organized? Who controls its contents, and how do they do it? How do search engines work? How can web visibility be exploited by those who want to sell us their wares? What's coming tomorrow, and can we influence it?
As we witness the dawn of a new era, this book shows readers what it will look like and how it will change their world. Whoever you are: if you care about information, this book will open your eyes and make you blink.
Presents a critical view of the idea of funneling information access through a small handful of gateways and the notion of a centralized index--and the problems that may cause
Provides promising approaches for addressing the problems, such as the personalization of web services
Presented by authorities in the field of digital libraries, web history, machine learning, and web and data mining
Find more information at the author's site: webdragons.net
Those interested in or who need information on today's fast-changing landscape of information access, who use search engines daily and may be affected by web spamming, selective access to information, or the problems of monopolistic control of information – just to name a few. Typical readers would be those in the software business, in particular in search engines, web content management, knowledge management, web advertising, and the law and ethics that surround this field; professionals in information science; librarians; and anyone that is interested in the ways in which the increasing amount of information will become accessible to us.
Preface
1. Setting the Scene According to the Philosophers Enter the Technologists The Information Revolution The World-Wide Web So What? Notes and Sources
2. Literature and The Web Changing Face of Libraries Metadata So What? Notes and Sources
3. Meet the Web Basic Concepts Web Pages: Documents and Beyond Metrology and Scaling Structure of the Web So What? Notes and Sources
4. How to Search Searching Text Searching in a Web Developments in Web Search So What? Notes and Sources
5. The Web Wars Preserving the Ecosystem Increasing Visibility: Tricks of the Trade Business, Ethics, and Spam The Anti-Spam War So What? Notes and Sources
6. Who Controls Information? The Violence of the Archive Web Democracy Privacy and Censorship Copyright and the Public Domain The Business of Search So What? Notes and Sources
7. The Dragons Evolve Communities Private Subnetworks The User as Librarian Your Computer and the Web So What? Notes and Sources
References
Index
No. of pages: 288
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: November 3, 2006
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
eBook ISBN: 9780080469096
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Ian H. Witten
Ian H. Witten is a professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text compression, and programming by demonstration. He received an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, England; an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Essex University, England. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published widely on digital libraries, machine learning, text compression, hypertext, speech synthesis and signal processing, and computer typography.
Affiliations and expertise
Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand
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Marco Gori
Professor Gori's research interests are in the field of artificial intelligence, with emphasis on machine learning and game playing. He is a co-author of the book “Web Dragons: Inside the myths of search engines technologies,” Morgan Kauffman (Elsevier), 2007. He was the Chairman of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and the President of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is in the list of top Italian scientists kept by VIAAcademy
(http://www.topitalianscientists.org/top_italian_scientists.aspx). Dr. Gori is a fellow of the IEEE, ECCAI, and IAPR.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Italy