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Tuesday, February 03, 2004
Google for a grade: UW class to study popular search engine - Cynthia Flash, The Seattle Times
.... Google — the popular Internet search engine — has permeated our lives so much that it has become a cultural icon. It's more than a simple search box that gives Internet users access to 3.3 billion Web pages. People play Google parlor games. They "Google" each other before going on a date. They "spoof" or "bomb" Google to make political statements. And now — for apparently the first time — a university professor is teaching a class on Google. This class — taught by University of Washington Information School professor Joe Janes — isn't a simple class on Web searching that one might find at a library or a community college. This is a graduate-level course (albeit only one credit) that explores Google as a cultural phenomenon, Google the business, the technology behind Google — and "Google the Ravager of Worlds."
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