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Article: Googlization

Bibliography 1.Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Googlization of Everything: (and Why We Should Worry). Berkeley: U of California, 2011. Print.

-How do you know this is a high-quality scholarly source? This is a high quality scholarly source because we use this book in class and the authors have a reliable background.

-What factual information on your topic does this source supply or verify? This source gives factual information about how google has influenced search results showing that it is a biased source.

-What is this source’s point of view, and how will you account for this when writing your article? This source has many examples of how googlization is a good thing and a bad thing. It gives many examples of how google is unreliable and biased as well as how google has done well.

2. Wolfe, Ira S. Geeks, Geezers and Googlization: How to Manage the Unprecedented Convergence of the Wired, the Tired, and Technology in the Workplace. Lancaster, PA: Ira S. Wolfe/Poised for the Future, 2009. Print.

Outline for Editing this article:

Definition: In this section I want to see if I can get better information. Also, almost all of the first paragraph in this section is one long quote. I think using only part of this quote would be better if other information can be used to replace other parts of the quote. Also there are a few grammatical errors that could be improved.

Development: In this section I want to make the first paragraph more cohesive instead of having a list of quotes by people talking about google. Also there are many things that need citations, so maybe I can look up the quotes or ideas mentioned and add citations in.

Criticisms of Google: In this section I want to use the googlization of everything book to talk about google uses our personal information. I also want to talk about bias in the program (Jew example).

Defense of Google: I want to go into more detail about google.org. I want to use neutral sources that will give good answer to discuss how google has helped society, especially those who are in need of help.

Final edits

-Criticisms of googlization-

The founders of Google have encountered hostility to their enterprise almost since its inception, both in the form of general press criticism and actual legal action. Various lawsuits have included infringement of copyright law; its dealings with advertising companies and in the volume of advertising that its users encounter.[9] Google has be notorious for its use of PageRank, an algorithm used by Google Search to rank websites in their search engine results. PageRank is a way of measuring the importance of website pages. According to Google: “PageRank works by counting the number and quality of links to a page to determine a rough estimate of how important the website is. The underlying assumption is that more important websites are likely to receive more links from other websites.”

Page 64-65 “Despite the pragmatic devotion to the technological virtues of speed, precision, comprehensiveness, and honesty in computer-generated results” Google has on occasion imposed human intervention and judgement, “from within the system, rather than rely on the slow-changing collective judgement of the users.” A prominent example of this happening occurred in April 2004, when the first search result, Wikipedia’s entry for “Jew”, was replaced with the homepage of an anti-semitic website called Jew Watch. Google also intervened with the PageRank algorithm when pages denying that the slaughter of 6 million jews occurred during World War II were high first-page results for the Google search “Holocaust” or “Jew”.

Also, despite Google’s general market dominance, some of its offshoots and additional projects have been less than successful. Nexus One (direct-to-customer sales) and Google Buzz (social networking site) all encountered problems when they were first established, problems which they are still struggling with. Also, in early February 2010, Google deleted years worth of archives from six popular music blogs due to receiving several DMCA notices from music copyright holders alleging that music was being shared illegally. This has proved to be controversial for Google.[10]