404 File Not Found: Citing Unstable Web Sources

2003 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Griffin
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Small Study ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Online Journals ◽  
The World

Researchers, including students, must accommodate to the mutating character of hyperlinks on the World Wide Web. A small study of citations in three volumes of BCQ demonstrates the phenomenon of " URL rot," the disappearance of sites cited in the sample articles. Digital technology itself is now being used to create pockets of permanence, but with the understanding that preservation of content is only one ingredient in the mix of media and format migration. Databases like JSTOR offer digitally preserved copies of many scholarly journals. Online journals and search engines may offer their own archives. In general, researchers should cite digital articles in databases where possible and consider avoiding references to online journals with print editions.

Patterns of Searching for Information on the World Wide Web: A Pilot Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 92 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1091-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuhiko Fujihara ◽  
Asako Miura
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Task Type ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Search Domain

The influences of task type on search of the World Wide Web using search engines without limitation of search domain were investigated. 9 graduate and undergraduate students studying psychology (1 woman and 8 men, M age = 25.0 yr., SD = 2.1) participated. Their performance to manipulate the search engines on a closed task with only one answer were compared with their performance on an open task with several possible answers. Analysis showed that the number of actions was larger for the closed task ( M = 91) than for the open task ( M = 46.1). Behaviors such as selection of keywords (averages were 7.9% of all actions for the closed task and 16.7% for the open task) and pressing of the browser's back button (averages were 40.3% of all actions for the closed task and 29.6% for the open task) were also different. On the other hand, behaviors such as selection of hyperlinks, pressing of the home button, and number of browsed pages were similar for both tasks. Search behaviors were influenced by task type when the students searched for information without limitation placed on the information sources.

Dark Web

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-164
Author(s):  
Punam Bedi ◽  
Neha Gupta ◽  
Vinita Jindal
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Data Dissemination ◽  
Deep Web ◽  
Web Browsers ◽  
Web Content ◽  
The World ◽  
Dark Web ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web is a part of the Internet that provides data dissemination facility to people. The contents of the Web are crawled and indexed by search engines so that they can be retrieved, ranked, and displayed as a result of users' search queries. These contents that can be easily retrieved using Web browsers and search engines comprise the Surface Web. All information that cannot be crawled by search engines' crawlers falls under Deep Web. Deep Web content never appears in the results displayed by search engines. Though this part of the Web remains hidden, it can be reached using targeted search over normal Web browsers. Unlike Deep Web, there exists a portion of the World Wide Web that cannot be accessed without special software. This is known as the Dark Web. This chapter describes how the Dark Web differs from the Deep Web and elaborates on the commonly used software to enter the Dark Web. It highlights the illegitimate and legitimate sides of the Dark Web and specifies the role played by cryptocurrencies in the expansion of Dark Web's user base.

Search Engines as Gatekeepers of Public Communication: Analysis of the German framework applicable to internet search engines including media law and anti trust law

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 1419-1431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Schulz ◽  
Thorsten Held ◽  
Arne Laudien
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Media Law ◽  
Communication Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Internet Law ◽  
Trust Law

Several fundamental questions concerning internet law come to a head over search engines. There are trademark cases, issues about the protection of minors and questions of liability. However, as far as we know, the fundamental role that search engines play in public communication based on the World Wide Web has not yet been subjected to any legal analysis. This seems to leave a significant gap in our knowledge, given the fact that the market for search engines tends to be monopolistic.

The poor quality of information about laparoscopy on the World Wide Web as indexed by popular search engines

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.W. Allen ◽  
R.J. Finch ◽  
M.G. Coleman ◽  
L.K. Nathanson ◽  
N.A. O'Rourke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World

Computers, the internet and the World Wide Web: an introduction for the e-therapist

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 359-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Digby Tantam
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World

The purpose of this first article of four addressing the electronic approaches to psychotherapy (e-therapy) is to introduce the equipment (computers) and systems (the World Wide Web and the internet) involved. I describe some of their many elements (e.g. bits and bytes), uses (such as search engines, email, web mail) and a few abuses (e.g. spam, spyware).

Searching Bioinformatics Information Strategies for Effective Use of Search Engine

2018 ◽  
pp. 742-748
Author(s):  
Viveka Vardhan Jumpala
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Search For Information ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Web

The Internet, which is an information super high way, has practically compressed the world into a cyber colony through various networks and other Internets. The development of the Internet and the emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW) as common vehicle for communication and instantaneous access to search engines and databases. Search Engine is designed to facilitate search for information on the WWW. Search Engines are essentially the tools that help in finding required information on the web quickly in an organized manner. Different search engines do the same job in different ways thus giving different results for the same query. Search Strategies are the new trend on the Web.

scholarly journals A quick analysis in relation to the electronic commerce of performance- and image-enhancing drugs based on the infrastructure of the world wide web

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Lutfi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
The World ◽  
Image Enhancing

Aims and Objectives: Performance- and Image-Enhancing Drugs (PIEDs) refer to all known forms of substances, that can enhance either the morphology or the physiological performance or both simultaneously. The exponential rise of electronic commerce (e-commerce) for PIEDs is a major public issue, for which control protocols are to be deployed.Materials and Methods: It would be a waste of time and resources to track and/or shut down all PIED-promoting websites one by one. Cyberspace is vast; the PIED “product managers” will always adapt to surveillance-control policies over their illegitimate online businesses. A more rational approach would be to track, challenge, and tackle the same resources upon which PIED electronic commerce is based: the infrastructure of the World Wide Web (the Internet).Results: Concerning PIED e-commerce, the main resources are Google and AOL (search engines); YouTube, Wikipedia, and Facebook (social media sites); and Alibaba, Amazon, and eBay (major e-commerce websites).Conclusion: Illegal PIED e-commerce became a major public problem. The major drivers are the Internet search engines, social media sites, and major e-commerce websites. Effective protocols toward these resources would hinder any future progress of this illegitimate worldwide phenomenon.Asian Journal of Medical Sciences Vol.7(4) 2016 88-93

Information literacy in an inquiry course for first-year science undergraduates: a simplified 3C approach

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. K. Rangachari ◽  
Usha Rangachari
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
World Wide ◽  
First Year ◽  
Science Program ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Simplified Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Popular Magazines ◽  
Undergraduate Science

In this article, we describe a simplified approach to teach students to assess information obtained from diverse sources. Three broad categories (credibility, content, and currency; 3C) were used to evaluate information from textbooks, monographs, popular magazines, scholarly journals, and the World Wide Web. This 3C approach used in an inquiry course for freshmen in an undergraduate science program can be readily transferred to other settings.

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