Looking for reputable article regarding Search Engine History

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I'm currently constructing a rough draft for English 295 (Business Writing). I am writing a report on the Search Engine Industry. I have already found all the information I need on the current state of the Industry, however, I cannot find a reputable article regarding the history of the industry.

Finding one is critical as my teacher is 65 and providing a backdrop would definitely boost my grade.

Any Help?

P.S: Any articles regarding SE would help!
 


Haha I know how Google works.. I looked over those same websites. The issue is that this is a research paper. My teacher doesn't accept wikipedia... what will make her accept those?

I've already searched through Academic Search Premier.. couldn't find anything too usefull.

However, I may try the argument that some of these websites should be allowed due to the nature of the industry.
 
This is true. In my experience, Academic Search Premier is the premier example of a horribly-put-together academic resource for scholarly journals, abstracts, and the like. One thing that's great about Wikipedia entries are that the sources are quoted and referenced in a bibliography at the bottom of the entry.

From these sources, you can click the links to get a more in-depth, full story about what's happening. However, looking at the entry for Web Search Engine, the ten sources aren't helpful whatsoever, so I see your problem.

Where do you go to school?
 
Did you try LexisNexis? You may be able to find some good stuff from the context of legal issues and case law, there is bound to be some history in there as there have been lawsuits over IP and sites getting deindexed and the black box nature of google's algorithm and its impact on the search market.
 
RoadToMillions said:
This is true. In my experience, Academic Search Premier is the premier example of a horribly-put-together academic resource for scholarly journals, abstracts, and the like. One thing that's great about Wikipedia entries are that the sources are quoted and referenced in a bibliography at the bottom of the entry.

From these sources, you can click the links to get a more in-depth, full story about what's happening. However, looking at the entry for Web Search Engine, the ten sources aren't helpful whatsoever, so I see your problem.

Where do you go to school?
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University of Tennessee - Knoxville. Rough Draft is due Wednesday and the Final Version on Friday.

The report itself is fairly short, a 1,000 word minimum. I think the most important aspects of the industry are: Content Delivery, Revenue through Advertising, and balancing both.

I'm still debating whether to include the effect of "branching out" from SE by the company, such as the apparent negative effect this caused on Yahoo.

The balance between privacy and access to a wealth of consumer information would also be interesting to analyze and include but at the same time I don't want to overload such a small report.
 
Small world, I attend WCU, a hundred or so miles away.

That's not a bad length for a report. Definitely look at a few instances of case law as justo_tx said through LexisNexis or WestLaw (your school library site should have links to get into those sites). Maybe find someone in the IT department that actually knows what they're talking about (which usually weeds out 95% of the It people, at least here), and see what they think.

You got two days, that's plenty of time to find someone.

And you may want to skip past the privacy/consumer information part. 1,000 words goes by quickly, and there's so much more you can touch on for this narrowed subject. At least, that's my opinion.
 
RoadToMillions said:
Small world, I attend WCU, a hundred or so miles away.

That's not a bad length for a report. Definitely look at a few instances of case law as justo_tx said through LexisNexis or WestLaw (your school library site should have links to get into those sites). Maybe find someone in the IT department that actually knows what they're talking about (which usually weeds out 95% of the It people, at least here), and see what they think.

You got two days, that's plenty of time to find someone.

And you may want to skip past the privacy/consumer information part. 1,000 words goes by quickly, and there's so much more you can touch on for this narrowed subject. At least, that's my opinion.
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Oh, cool shit, I have a few friends that go to ECU (I'm assuming they aren't close to you :P).

Appreciate the advice, I'll definitely look into some leads.
 
Is Wickedfire becoming the new Google? It seems people come here and start a thread and then everyone goes and looks up the answers.
 
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