Web dragons : inside the myths of search engine technology

Web dragons inside the myths of search engine technology

In the eye-blink that has elapsed since the turn of the millennium, the lives of those of us who work with information have been utterly transformed. Pretty well all we need to know is on the web; if not today, then tomorrow. It's where we learn and play, shop and do business, keep up with old...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Witten, I. H. (-)
Other Authors: Gori, Marco, Numerico, Teresa
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Morgan Kaufmann c2007.
Edition:1st edition
Series:The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems
Subjects:
Search engines.
World Wide Web.
Electronic information resource literacy.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627303406719
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover; Web Dragons; Copyright page; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; Chapter 1: SETTING THE SCENE; ACCORDING TO THE PHILOSOPHERS...; ENTER THE TECHNOLOGISTS; THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION; THE WORLD WIDE WEB; SO WHAT?; NOTES AND SOURCES; Chapter 2: LITERATURE AND THE WEB; THE CHANGING FACE OF LIBRARIES; METADATA; DIGITIZING OUR HERITAGE; SO WHAT?; NOTES AND SOURCES; Chapter 3: MEET THE WEB; BASIC CONCEPTS; WEB PAGES: DOCUMENTS AND BEYOND; METROLOGY AND SCALING; STRUCTURE OF THE WEB; SO WHAT?; NOTES AND SOURCES; Chapter 4: HOW TO SEARCH
  • SEARCHING TEXTSEARCHING IN A WEB; DEVELOPMENTS IN WEB SEARCH; BIRTH OF THE DRAGONS; SO WHAT?; NOTES AND SOURCES; Chapter 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; Chapter 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; Chapter 7: THE DRAGONS EVOLVE; THE ADVENTURE OF SEARCH; PERSONALIZATION IN PRACTICE; COMMUNITIES; PRIVATE SUBNETWORKS
  • THE USER AS LIBRARIANYOUR COMPUTER AND THE WEB; SO WHAT?; NOTES AND SOURCES; REFERENCES; INDEX

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