Index
Introduction 7
Konrad Becker
Felix Stalder
Histories
Search before grep
Paul Duguid
A Progress from Closed to Open?
13
The Library in the Information Age
Robert Darnton
6000 Years of Script
32
Society of the Query
Geert Lovink
The Googlization of our Lives
45
On the Sociometry of Search Engines
Katja Mayer
A Historical Review of Methods
54
Liberties
From Trust to Tracks
Claire Lobet-Maris
A Technology Assessment Perspective Revisited
73
Search Engine Law and Freedom of Expression
Joris van Hoboken
A European Perspective
85
The Second Index
Felix Stalder
Christine Mayer
Search Engines, Personalization and Surveillance
98
Power
Dissecting the Gatekeepers
Theo Rohle
Relational Perspectives on the Power of Search Engines
117
Democratizing Search?
Bernhard Rieder
From Critique to Society-oriented Design
133
Google's PageRank
Matteo Pasquinelli
Diagram of the Cognitive Capitalism and Rentier of the Common Intellect
152
The Power of Classification
Konrad Becker
Culture, Context, Command, Control, Communications, Computing
163
Visibility
The Googlization Question
Richard Rogers
Towards the Inculpable Engine?
173
Peripheral Forces
Metahaven
On the Relevance of Marginality in Networks
185
How to Follow Global Digital Cultures
Lev Manovich
Cultural Analytics for Beginners
198
Author Information 213