DIS 19, Fiat Lux: "Just Google It":
What It Really Is and When It's Appropriate

(as well as issues of Identity and Privacy)

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V. Potential Presentation Topics:

How do you get informed and stay informed; Google News created by Krishna Bharat; “How Google News Results Are Selected”

a. Compared to Yahoo! News, MSNBC, AOL News, and CNN as well as the New York Times as well as alternative news such as The Daily Show, Colbert Report or Onion News Network or reddit, “the front page of the internet” as assembled by users or via FaceBook app.

b. Google Crisis Response at http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/

c. Create a Google Alert at http://www.google.com/alerts

d. Google has an list of newspapers which it has indexed

e. Search newspaper archives using (your search terms plus without quotation marks) “site:news.google.com/newspapers”

Revised: 23 January 2018; created: 30 August 2006