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Hermann Maurer on Big Brother Google
Prof. Dr. Hermann Maurer, TU Graz, gave a quite passionate speech at the Nordakademie in Elmshorn. I took some photos [1], and like to recommend his "Report on dangers and opportunities posed by large search engines, particularly Google" [2]. I quote from the intro:

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The aim of our investigation was to discuss exactly what is formulated in the title. This will of course constitute a main part of this write-up. However, in the process of investigations it also became clear that the focus has to be extended, not to just cover Google and search engines in an isolated fashion, but to also cover other Web 2.0 related phenomena, particularly Wikipedia, Blogs, and other related community efforts. It was the purpose of our investigation to demonstrate:

– Plagiarism and IPR violation are serious concerns in academia and in the commercial world
– Current techniques to fight both are rudimentary, yet could be improved by a concentrated initiative
– One reason why the fight is difficult is the dominance of Google as THE major search engine and that Google is unwilling to cooperate
– The monopolistic behaviour of Google is also threatening how we see the world, how we as individuals are seen (complete loss of privacy) and is threatening even world economy (!)
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[1] http://www.mprove.de/events/09/maurer/index.html
[2] http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/Ressourcen/Papers/dangers_google.p... /PDF, 187 pages
Questo contributo è stato modificato in data 26/05/2009 alle ore 22:14.
- 26/05/2009, 22:13
Matthias Müller-Prove ha scritto: > Prof. Dr. Hermann Maurer, TU Graz, gave a quite passionate speech at > the Nordakademie in Elmshorn. I took some photos [1], and like to > recommend his "Report on dangers and opportunities posed by large > search engines, particularly Google" [2]. I quote from the intro: > > >> > The aim of our investigation was to discuss exactly what is > formulated in the title. This will of course constitute a main part > of this write-up. However, in the process of investigations it also > became clear that the focus has to be extended, not to just cover > Google and search engines in an isolated fashion, but to also cover > other Web 2.0 related phenomena, particularly Wikipedia, Blogs, and > other related community efforts. It was the purpose of our > investigation to demonstrate: > > – Plagiarism and IPR violation are serious concerns in academia and > in the commercial world > – Current techniques to fight both are rudimentary, yet could be > improved by a concentrated initiative > – One reason why the fight is difficult is the dominance of Google as > THE major search engine and that Google is unwilling to cooperate > – The monopolistic behaviour of Google is also threatening how we see > the world, how we as individuals are seen (complete loss of privacy) > and is threatening even world economy (!) > << > > [1] http://www.mprove.de/events/09/maurer/index.html > [2] http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/Ressourcen/Papers/dangers_google.pdf > /PDF, 187 pages

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Hermann Maurer on Big Brother Google