CRIM 414 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Plausible Deniability, Edward Snowden, Brown Corpus
9 Sep 2016
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Provide easy access to a wealth of open access information. Such systems use extensive indices (index pl. ) that point to web content by its location (google or search engines download website, analyze context, create index, use that index to compare with what you type when you search) When you enter a search term, the engine returns a list of links considered relevant to your search. These links are ordered to reflect their priority: which may be relevance (what you previously searched for, based on where you are located, or other factors (eg advertisement) Searching the web is now commonplace, takes some practice to search efficiently. Generally try to optimize returns to suit entered search terms. Possible to search and find relevant information without sophisticated insights, knowledge of information retrieval or search engines. Some available content on the internet can include information that could be harmful to the people.
