Search Engines

Before I started this blog, I wanted to get good diverse information that I can use to answer this assignment better. I’ve asked a friend of mine about what he thought about current search engines and what’s might become of the current one and what new ones will emerge in order for my blog to not appear too bias. Anyways, there are many search engines out there like Google Yahoo Bing MSN Ask.com to name a few. However, Google and Yahoo are the most well known search engines at the present and have been for a while. First search engine I ever used was Google; (I came from Haiti with no computer literacy let alone knowledge of how to use the internet. When I discovered Google, I was able to use it before I knew what it was.) In my unit in the Army Reserve our leaders are always telling us to take initiatives and do research on our own and the search engine they mention is Google. Yahoo is another search engine that is very well known and used. From what I’ve learned, it seemed that yahoo is more trustworthy search then Google even though Google is used more often. Even though on February 11 2008 Yahoo turned down Microsoft buyout of 42 billion dollars, on July 29 2009 it agreed to become part of Microsoft: http://risetothetop.techwyse.com/internet-marketing/microsoft-finally-buys-yahoo-paid-and-organic-search/

Though Google doesn’t need to create a second act after its new Android product G Phone, it can sure improve on the public’s trust. I would advise that it checks spammers that constantly use gmail as the source of spamming other people’s mail box with crazy scams. And of course it has to keep updating new developments to not only keep up with the current speed of the internet age but to make things better and more profitable for its users.

There will definitely be developments that will make the deep web accessible. All one has to is to look at how libraries are making agreements with search engines and how Google has its own library. As time goes on, the Deep Web will only get bigger: http://websearch.about.com/od/invisibleweb/a/invisible_web.htm

Possible policy issues that might and probably will come up are privacy and how to regulate the information. There are things that people can do on Google (like looking at google map satellite and looking at people’s houses) that certain individual shouldn’t be able to have such privilege to access. Government will also have to make rules so they don’t invade our privacy using the new technologies that are and will be available.

People want to trust corporations/government with info however just like people abuse the government the government sometimes steps on a few toes to get what it wants. Privacy is and always will be an issue in our lives. Technology has made it easier for people to invade our privacy and it is mainly up to us to protect ourselves. I don’t believe capitalism is at odds with information creation and privacy.