Academic

Grimmelmann on Google

By Lawrence Solum

James Grimmelmann (New York Law School) has posted The Google Dilemma (New York Law School Law Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Web search is critical to our ability to use the Internet. Whoever controls search engines has enormous influence on all of us; whoever controls the search engines, perhaps, controls the Internet itself. This short essay (based on talks given in January and April 2008) uses the stories of five famous search queries to illustrate the conflicts over search and the enormous power Google wields in choosing whose voices are heard on the Internet.

This concise and elegant paper is well worth a read if you are interested in how Google works and the problems of Internet regulation that it creates.  Highly recommended.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on July 30, 2008 (boomark / email).