Monthly Archives: October 2012

While readings Liddy’s “How a Search Emgine Works”  I learned alot about the complexity behind search engines. I knew it was a lot of work because I had spoken to an employee of Google before and she had somewhat explained how it worked.  Search engines always give us the easiest and more simple answers when we searched something and I always felt it left with a lot more work to do opposed to helping me out (in terms of doing more work lol). I do appreciate the great amount of work that goes behind creating a search engine and I understand that I too, have to put in more work in searching through all those pages to find more information that will better my papers or what ever I’m looking up in the long run.

-Destiny Modeste

Would it sound crazy if I said search engines controls the internet? Maybe the word “controls” sounds a bit strong nearly implying that search engines are a collective internet Illuminati of sorts. However search engines do hold a large amount of power because it ultimately decides what we eventually click on. Why do you think corporations pay top dollar to have their web pages featured in Google’s first page search? I mean that has a lot to do with the fact that people normally do not look pass the first page but yeah.

The process behind searching through a search engine is rather intricate but the article explaining it excluded page ranks which is a big part of it all.

I wonder if the next generation will change this to “tagsonomy”. With the popularity (and almost, necessity of) social networking and social media, the tag is the most popular and easiest means of classifying and organizing ideas and information. As this technological age moves forward its interesting to see the difference in uses of tags, and how people will use this ability to organize and categorize information which will stay for the rest of digital history. As with all things, sadly, the improper or unfocused use of tags will highly dilute sensible and usable information. A fear i personally have regarding tags is the over saturation that will occur as sites merge together and aggravate results.