NEWS LITERACY YOUR PERSONALIZED INTERNET BY DUCHESS HARRIS JD PHD WITH ELISABETH HERSCHBACH Core Library Cover image The content we see on the Web is often shaped by what we seek out online An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com
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CUSTOMIZING THE WEB The Internet has put more information at our fingertips than ever before With a few clicks we can research any topic Our searches return millions of results For Internet users browsing the Web is easy In fact we usually take it for granted But for the companies that run websites sifting through all that data is a massive task DIGITAL OVERLOAD As of June 2017 Google's search engine tracked approximately 130 trillion Web pages That includes about 1 billion websites and With Google and other popular search engines information is easy to come by
