On practicing safe search: fine tuning, privacy-friendly searches, and learning more. As librarians, we need to be concerned about privacy.
ALA’s Policy Statement on Privacy reminds us Libraries, librarians, and library workers have an ethical obligation, expressed in the ALA Code of Ethics, to preserve users’ right to privacy and prevent any unauthorized use or disclosure of users’ personally identifiable information or the data associated with their use of the library’s resources. Just as we protect the confidentiality of user borrowing records, we need to prepare our students to protect their own privacy online.
Fine tuning the usual suspects We might begin by encouraging students to be aware of their privacy options when they use old familiar tools. Using Google’s Privacy Checkup you can weigh the value of personalized, faster, more convenient services against privacy and data protection. We can also share a growing array of search options that are designed with privacy in mind.
Here are some privacy-friendly options: 1. And I am kinda smitten with its semantic search. 2. List of search engines - Wikipedia. Wikimedia list article By content/topic General * Powered by Bing ** Powered by Google *** Metasearch engine † Main website is a portal Based on Based on Ask.com (formerly) Based on Bing Based on Google Based on Yahoo!
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All My Faves. 21 Alternative Search Engines To Use in 2020. When we talk about SEO and search engines, we instantly think of Google.
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Carrot2 Search Results Clustering Engine Carrot2 organizes your search results into topics.
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