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Social and Technical Problems concerning Search Engines discussed

The Web has grown enormously over the last few years. More and more people are online nowadays and the number of websites is also rapidly rising.
The commercialisation of the Internet started when the government stopped sponsoring the Internet in 1995. An obvious result of the rapid growth in Internet users is the misuse and abuse on the Web. The more the Internet is used, the more it becomes necessary to come up with rules and regulations to prevent certain things from happening. This could have a considerable affect on the standard agreement of the ‘Internet Philosophy’: freedom of action, user empowerment, end-user responsibility for actions undertaken, and lack of controls ‘in’ the Net that limit or regulate what users can do. Furthermore, there are many that agree that it is morally wrong for someone like the government to interfere.
One of the sources of risky use on the Web is that it is increasingly used for commercial reasons. Whenever there is money involved, the...

Posted by: Asare Mabel

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