Category Archives: Research Questions

Research Question (Second Draft)

Can Google be trusted in upholding it’s privacy policies when handling incriminating queries from it’s web search?

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2nd Draft of Research Question

To what extent has the availability of Google search or other search engines affected memory retrieval of people with access to  such services? —>

To what extent has the availability of Google search and other search engines, such as, Yahoo and Bing, affected memory retrieval of people who with access to  such services?

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My Research Question (2nd Draft)

To what extent does Googles advertising have a more influential affect than advertising from servers like Facebook ?

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Redone Research Question

To what extent are OEMs like Samsung negatively affected by patent infringement issues posed by competitors such as Apple and Microsoft while distributing the Android operating system on their mobile devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets)?

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Revised Research question

To what extent is users privacy at risk when using various applications on the Android Operating System.

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Research Question (2nd Draft)

To what extent has the use of Google Search allowed for the distribution of a user’s search information to different advertising and marketing companies?

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Research Question (Revised)

To what extent would the digitization of copyrighted written works in the Google Books database adversely affect members of the Author’s guild?

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focused research questiom

In the long run, would it have been better for Google to combat Google bombing directly by suppressing offensive search results when typing in the word “Jew”, pushing them further down the list, or simply sticking to the apology ad they have now?

(I changed my research question since as you mentioned during our conference I had not known enough about Google’s Ad-words to be able to identify its affects on businesses.)

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Google, Privacy, and Your Research Questions

I recognize that the issue of privacy and Google is a fascinating one, but I do hope that those of you who are developing your research question in this topic area will each find a way to distinguish your question from the others working in the same area. In your comments to each other on the blog, it’s clear that you are all aware of the need to focus your topics further, perhaps by settling on one narrow part of Google’s empire (Google Maps, YouTube, Google Apps, Gmail, etc.) I’d be delighted if those of you working on privacy topics would have each found a niche of your own like that.

I do hope as well that you’ll read some of the articles and websites you’re discovering and see that your topics are probably more complicated than you might have first imagined. For anyone working on privacy related topics, there is a LOT to be learned from an amazing series of articles that the Wall Street Journal did in the summer of 2010 titled “What They Know” that delved deep into the ways many websites and many technologies you use everyday are gathering your personal information (who you are, where you went online, and what you did there) and sharing pieces of that with other companies.

The series of articles includes one on Google that sets Google’s own internal discussions about privacy issues against the larger picture of what other companies are doing.

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David Paradis: Research Question

To what extent can google distribute personal information and search quires to companies and marketing agencies, and is google trustworthy of deciding what to do with this information in a responsible manner?

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