Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business.
Part of UC Berkeley’s new YouTube campus, a web site of lectures uploaded for viewing by the public, is a series of lectures about search engines. The lectures are part of a course taught in the School of Information by Dr. Marti Hearst. Some of the lectures are a couple of years old, now, but the fundamentals covered are no less relevant.
The Abstract (quoted from the web site):
“The World Wide Web brings much of the world’s knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities.”