Filter Bubbles:
- DuckDuckGo - escape your filter bubble:
I think that this alternative search engine is really cool. I do get a little annoyed with the fact that google tries guess at what I like and gives me and other people different results. Sometimes I would like to see things that are tailored specifically to me. I also don't like that it appears to remember my past searches, clicks, likes, etc.
-What Google Knows about you:
This goes along with the first reading that we had. The DuckDuckGo goes with this. Google tries to figure out what I want to see based on the things that I search for, etc. I think this is both good and bad. It is good because it should be able to give me a good amount of information that I am actually interested in. The bad is that it filters out everything else. If I am wanting to look up something that may not be anything near what I am usually looking for, then I might end up with results that don't help me at all.
Dark Web:
-Dark Web article at Wikipedia:
Before this class, the only time that I had heard about the dark web was on Criminal Minds. It was always being referred to and the technical analyst would have to search through the dark web to find information about the criminals. I realized that a lot of what goes on in the dark web isn't bad. Some bad stuff occurs on there but it is not always the case. I thought that if you needed to use the dark web, you did so because you were doing some illegal stuff. I still find it quite fascinating that there are people that can hack into things like that.
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