[Air-l] [Fwd: [sociocybernetics] Internet time and the reliability of search engines]

[jespert]

Dear All,

The links disappeared ! I try to pased here:

 http://www.firstmonday.org/

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/wouters/index.html#author

http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/wouters/a.gif



Best Regards
Jesper


Jespert wrote:

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [sociocybernetics] Internet time and the reliability of 
> search engines
> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:42:04 +0200
> From: "Loet Leydesdorff" <loet at leydesdorff.net>
> Reply-To: sociocybernetics at yahoogroups.com
> To: "'Science & Technology Studies'" <STS at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
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>  First Monday
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> Internet time and the reliability of search engines by Paul Wouters, Iina
> Hellsten, and Loet Leydesdorff
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> Abstract  Search engines are unreliable tools for data collection for 
> research that
> aims to reconstruct the historical record. This unreliability is not 
> caused
> by sudden instabilities of search engines. On the contrary, their
> operational stability in systematically updating the Internet is the 
> cause.
> We show how both Google and Altavista systematically relocate the time 
> stamp
> of Web documents in their databases from the more distant past into the
> present and the very recent past. They also delete documents. We show how
> this erodes the quality of information. The search engines continuously
> reconstruct competing presents that also extend to their perspectives 
> on the
> past. This has major consequences for the use of search engine results in
> scholarly research, but gives us a view on the various presents and pasts
> living side by side in the Internet.
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>  _____ 
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>
> Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
> Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
> Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681  loet at leydesdorff.net ;
> http://www.leydesdorff.net/
>
>  The Challenge of
> Scientometrics ;   The
> Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society
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Jesper Tække - MA. Ph.D.-Student - IT University of Copenhagen - Dept. of Digital Aesthetics & Communication -  Rued Langgaards Vej 7 - DK-2300 Copenhagen S - Phone +45 7218 5000 - Direct +45 7218 5037 - Fax +45 7218 5001 - http://home16.inet.tele.dk/jesper_t/  - e-mail: jespert at itu.dk