Google and the Culture of Search

• Main Authors: Hillis, Ken, Petit, Michael, Jarrett, Kylie
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York ; London Routledge 2013; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: bing; Cyberculture; Google; information studies; Information Technology; Information technology > Social aspects; Internet searching; Internet searching > Social aspects; internet studies; Internet users; Internet users > Psychology; Ken Hillis; Mass Communication; media literacy; Media Studies; New Media; politics and the Internet; Psychology; search; Social aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. bisacsh; Sociology of Media; Web search engines; Web search engines > Social aspects; yahoo; Van Couvering; Total Library; World Brain; internet studies; Californian Ideology; Crimson Hexagon; information studies; CPC Model; media studies; FTC Act; Universal Bibliographic Control; search; Street View; Ken Hillis; yahoo; media literacy; Google Books; Myth's Transmission; Orphan Books; Google Print; Authors Guild; Google Instant; Information Machines; Bush's Memex; Sunny Side; google; new media; Granulated Information; Google Books Library Project; Teilhard De Chardin; Networked Digital Technologies; bing; Google's Model; Knowledge Acquisition; Borges's Library; politics and the Internet

What did you do before Google? The rise of Google as the dominant Internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study of searc...