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Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet there is growing concern with how algorithms, which run just beneath the surface of our interactions online, are affecting society. This timely new edition of Search Engine Society enlightens readers on the forms of bias that algorithms introduce…

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I like this book because it offers a systematic account of the ways search engines affect our lives. From the way we organize our thoughts using search engines, through the economic sphere and the markets sphere to the political sphere, it analyzes in simple language various examples of how our lives have changed once search engines were introduced and become part of our daily lives.

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