Re: Suggestions needed for non-personalized web searches of campus

["Marcum, Chad A" <cmarcum () IU EDU>]

I just did a quick Google search and got quite a few hits with this:

site:rit.edu "cialis"

--chad 

Chad Marcum
Payment System Security Analyst
Office of the Treasurer
Indiana University
812-855-2930 (p)
812-855-3863 (f)


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of James H. Moore
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 2:42 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Suggestions needed for non-personalized web searches of
campus

I have been using Google alerts to find drug back linking on websites.  It
started to become less effective a couple of years ago.  My suspicion is
that Google's algorithms are getting more personalized ( for discussion see:
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli Parise
<http://www.amazon.com/Eli-Pariser/e/B004W4ERWM/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1> r)
In any case, since I rarely search for viagra or cialis, when I use Google
Alerts search RIT for viagra or cialis, I get no hits.  But today, a
colleague, running the same set of Google Alerts did get a hit. Grrr. 

All of this is driven by "relevance" calculations.  Anyone know a way to get
around relevance in search engines (Google especially)?  Of do I bite the
bullet and use my own web spider for our website.


Jim
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