In a world where Google has put every bit of information at our fingertips, some people are now demanding less information when they surf the Internet.
Some Jews, Muslims and Christians are abandoning Yahoo and Google and turning to search engines with results that meet their religious standards.
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Danny Sullivan joins Eric Meyer and Jen Simmons for the latest episode in The Web Behind series. Danny reminisces about the early days of web search, directories versus crawlers, the panoply of search engines in the mid-1990s, page counts as serious bragging rights, the brief period when there were search engines that only searched other search engines, the verbing of “Google,” and more.
"In China, it’s hard to be anonymous online in part due to a phenomenon known as the human-flesh search engine. It’s not really a search engine at all. Rather, it’s a community of message board users that seek out and punish in the real world people they find committing offensive acts online. Tom Downey explains in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine that the human flesh search engine offers a disturbing mix of justice and revenge."
Today, a story — submitted for your approval. The University of Houston’s College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. (http://uh.edu/engines)
Featured on Episode 92 of Forgotten Classics.
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