1. Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   In the early years of the internet, it was revolutionary to have a world of information just a click away from anyone, anywhere, anytime. Many hoped this inherently democratic technology could lead to better-informed citizens more easily participating in debate, elections and public discourse.
2. 'Fake news' or free speech: Is Google cracking down on left media?
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   Left leaning progressive websites say they are being unfairly penalized by Google's efforts to stamp out fake news.
3. From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content that threatens their rule. But in the "democratic" west, it is being done differently. The state does not have to interfere directly -- it outsources its dirty work to corporations.
4. Going Beyond Google
   The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2009
   Looks at ways to teach Invisible Web research.
5. Google Alerts FAQ
   Resource Type: Article
   
6. Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   An interview with the current head of Google Search, discussing some of the thought processes behind the current functionality of 'search' and some of its possibilites for the future.
7. Google rebels against China's Internet censors
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders hails US Internet giant Google#s announcement yesterday that it will stop censoring the Chinese version of its search engine, Google.cn # a move that could lead to Google.cn#s closure and Google#s withdrawal from China.
8. Google's de-ranking of RT in search results is a form of censorship and blatant propaganda
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   A commentary on the recent admission by an executive of Google's parent company (Alphabet) that special algorithms are being created to filter RTs news in order to make it appear less prominently in Google's search results.
9. Google's Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   Recent remarks by the Executive Chairman of Google's parent company confirm charges that the company has been deliberately altering its search algorithms and taking other measures to prevent the public from accessing information that is critical of the US government.
10. Google's new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    New data suggests that the implementation of changes in Google's search evaluation protocols resulted in a massive loss of readership of socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites.
11. IntelligentSearch.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
12. ixquick
    Resource Type: Website
    A meta-search engine which does not record users' IP addresses. It provides a range of advanced search options, and ranks results according to how other search engines aggregately rank a page.
13. Valerie Jones, M.B.A., Speaker, Social Networking, E-Commerce Expert, GrandandToyEmpower.com
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
14. Monitoring Online Mass: Four Key Areas to Watch
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    With the search engine being the modern encyclopedia, you expect to find answers to all your questions in a few short clicks. Presumably there is an answer to every social media question that comes up. This, however, is never the reality.
15. OCCRP Launches New Search Engine for Investigative Journalists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a non-profit network of investigative journalism centers in Europe and Eurasia, has launched a new data platform to enable journalists and researchers to sift more than 2 million documents and use the findings in their investigations. People using the new data platform, called ID Search, will be able to set up email alerts notifying them when new results appear for their searches or for persons tracked on official watchlists. They can also create their own private watchlists.
16. Recommendations on the right to be forgotten
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On the problems for the protection of freedom of expression and the right to information posed by the right to be removed from search engine results and, more broadly, the right to be forgotten. Privacy and freedom of expression are fundamental rights of equal value. Whenever one conflicts with the other, a balance must be reached under a judge’s authority because, as a matter of principle, one cannot be given more importance than the other.
17. Search Engine Guide
    The small business guide to search marketing
    Resource Type: Website
    An educational web site aimed at translating the search marketing world into something that small business owners can understand.
18. Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great harm.
19. Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups.
20. Sources Search
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2010
    
21. Sources welcomes Valerie Jones
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes a new member: Valerie Jones, M.B.A., Speaker, Social Networking, E-Commerce Expert, GrandandToyEmpower.com.
22. The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: "Google." Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use four main search engines for 99.99% of their searches: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com (in that order). But in my travels as a Search Engine Optimizer (SEO), I have discovered that in that .01% lies a vast multitude of the most innovative and creative search engines you have never seen. So many, in fact, that I have had to limit my list of the very best ones to a mere 100.

Experts on Search Engines in the Sources Directory

1. Ulli Diemer