But critics have argued that this obviously is not the case today, rather they are biased. For example, Brey (1998, 2004) and Friedman and Nissenbaum (1996) have argued that computer technology has certain built-in features that tend to favor some values over others, and possibly prevent some valuable information from being accessed by the user. From a rational view, search engines should not be permitted to use their market power to discriminate against competing applications or content. Just as telephone companies are not permitted to tell consumers who they can call or what they can say, search engines should not be allowed to use their market power to control activity online. Tim Berners-Lee emphasized this, adding that "the neutral communications medium is essential to our society. It is the basis of a fair competitive market economy. It is the basis of democracy, by which a community should decide what to do. It is the basis of science, by which humankind should decide what is true. Let us protect the neutrality of the net.".
In computing, spam-dexing is the deliberate manipulate of search engine indexes. It involves repeatedly using certain keywords - registered trademarks, brand names or famous names - in one's Web page. Doing this can make a Web site move to the top of a search engine list, drawing higher traffic to that site - even if the site has nothing to do with the search request (Wordspy.com). In 'Shaping the Web' Introna and Nissenbaum (2000) stated that search engines "systematically exclude certain sites and certain types of sites, in favor of others, systematically giving prominence to some at the expense of others." This could be due to the interests of advertisers who sponsor search engines. Some critics point out that search engine companies are "answerable" to the paid advertisers who sponsor them. So, for many of these critics, bias-related concerns affecting the inclusion or exclusion of certain sites can be attributable mainly to the interests of paid advertisers (Plato.
Ethics and the Internet No one denies that the Internet is the most useful tool for research, business, and education, yet the Internet is the subject of a topic that is as controversial as the legalities of abortion or homosexual rights: ethics and the Internet. ... This brings a need for a case of ethics in the Internet realm. ...
Why Bother With Ethics? ... Purpose, principle and consequence are the vehicles of ethics in business. ... Ethics are a necessary and critical ingredient in any successful enterprise. ... Clearly, defining ethics is to define man 's values and interests. ... Constitution guarantees a "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." ...
Practically anything you could ever need to look up is provided online and can easily be found with the use of a search engine. ... The ethics of using the Internet can cause problems too. ... There is a site called 192.com where anybody can be searched for and find their full name, address and telephone number, even with clear directions to their house. ... Eventually it will be too hard to use search engines because it will just give you so many sites; far too many to sort through. ...
All that a person has to do is to type in an "indecent" word and modern search engines will point to sites where the word crops up. Typing in a popular for letter expletive into two of the most popular search engines yielded 17224 hits for Lycos and 40000 for AltaVista, the worlds biggest search engine. However both of these engines have over 60 million cataloged web pages. ... In the course of the debate, serious questions have been raised regarding the study's methodology, the ethics by which its data were gathered and even its true authorship. ...
Why Bother With Ethics? ... Purpose, principle and consequence are the vehicles of ethics in business. ... Ethics are a necessary and critical ingredient in any successful enterprise. ... Clearly, defining ethics is to define man 's values and interests. ... Constitution guarantees a "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." ...
As you sit down to watch your favorite television show at night do you notice that each actor or actress has a different personality? I watch many different shows and it seems to me that each person has their own personality. Personality is a unique set of stable, ordering characteristics and patterns of behavior that influence the way a person adjusts to the environment (Moist, 2003). I feel that each person in the world each has his or her own unique personality with different characteristics. Some of the characteristics that vary from person to person are things such as motives, thought...
