[Air-L] Too much trust in Google?

[Michael Zimmer]

For those who study search engine use, trust, and literacy, you might enjoy this anecdote regarding a student in one of my classes who fell for Google's 2002 hoax PigeonRank.

If You Trust Google’s Results, You Can Thank…“PigeonRank”?
http://michaelzimmer.org/2009/12/07/if-you-trust-googles-results-you-can-thank-pigeonrank/

-michael



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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies
Associate, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
e: zimmerm at uwm.edu
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