Google as God: The Theology of Search Engines
Selected Bibliography and Further Information

Original New York Times Article

Friedman, Thomas. June 29, 2003. “Is Google God?" New York Times.

Other Articles

Achenbach, Joel. February 15, 2004. “Search For Tomorrow: We Wanted Answers, And Google Really Clicked. What's Next?” Washington Post.

Blogs/Internet Commentary on the Article

Dion, Paul. My Google God, Oct/Nov 2003. Available from http://www.thekaleidoscope.com/Current/J.html.

Diego, Doval. d2r:  The Theology of Google June 29, 2003 Available from http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002139.html

Metafilter Community Blog June 30, 2003 Available from http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/26723.

Smith, Gene. Atomiq Blog, June 30, 2003. Available from http://www.atomiq.org/archives/000664.html.

Strauss, Stephen. Sees All, Knows All: Is It God or Google? The Globe and Mail, July 30, 2003. Available from http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030730.gtcostrauss30/BNStory/Technology/

Context/Background/Selected Bibliography

Belew, Richard K. 2000. Finding out About: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Berry, Michael W., and Murray Browne. 1999. Understanding Search Engines : Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval, Software, Environments, Tools. Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Calishain, Tara, and Rael Dornfest. 2003. Google Hacks: [100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools]. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.

Glossbrenner, Alfred, and Emily Glossbrenner. 2001. Search Engines for the World Wide Web. 3rd ed, Visual Quickstart Guide. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.

Head, Alison J. 1999. Design Wise: A Guide for Evaluating the Interface Design of Information Resources. Medford, N.J.: CyberAge Books.

Hock, Randolph. 2001.The Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines: A Handbook for the Serious Searcher. Medford, N.J.: CyberAge Books.

Nardi, Bonnie A., and Vicki O'Day. 1999. Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Nunberg, Geoffrey. May 18, 2003. "As Google goes, so goes the nation." New York Times, 152:4.

Oder, Norman. 2003. "Nunberg puts Google in context." Library Journal, 128(12):4.

Price, Gary. 2003. "What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching." Searcher, 11(10):35.

Roszak, Theodore. 1986. The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking. New York: Pantheon.

Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Van-House,Nancy and Stuart Sutton. 1996. “The Panda syndrome: an ecology of LIS education.” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 37: 131-47.

 

 

Ned Fielden
San Francisco
State University
12 March, 2004
fielden@sfsu.edu
http://online.sfsu.edu/~fielden/