The Google Dilemma
12 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2008 Last revised: 25 Oct 2012
Abstract
Web search is critical to our ability to use the Internet. Whoever controls search engines has enormous influence on all of us; whoever controls the search engines, perhaps, controls the Internet itself. This short essay (based on talks given in January and April 2008) uses the stories of five famous search queries to illustrate the conflicts over search and the enormous power Google wields in choosing whose voices are heard on the Internet.
Keywords: search, search engine, Google, Internet
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Grimmelmann, James and Grimmelmann, James, The Google Dilemma. 53 New York Law School Law Review 939 (2009), NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08/09-2, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1160320
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