Mtg 7/24: Tue-01-Feb-2022

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Good morning. I really got into a room and I thought. Ruse everybody, and then I realized, I went to the wrong room. So here, I am in the correct room. I think. So winter is not over yet, is it. Happy Tuesday the first day of February. So let me just get our attendance stuff on the way first. Okay. Now you beat me to it. Somebody sent me a direct message, so I had to. I had to reset that first. So there's a comment about or question about project proposal so. yeah I have cleaned up the group so we're in some of you may have noticed earlier, that there are a lot of empty groups in the class which were copied over from last offering so clean those up so that. The effect of that is that. there. There aren't any project groups set up presently. So, if you remember, I said, you can do either the. The project with a small group. up to four or do it individually. So what i'll do. Is i'll create a. Project groups or ever put everybody in their own project groups. And then, when you. If you decide to do it in a. larger than a group of one. When you when we receive your proposals. Indicating the members of your group. Then we'll adjust your project group so you only have one project group to deal with. Yes. So another direct message so. I don't. I don't know how it is. With your zoom interface for doing chats but. If you can try and keep it. So too, a. message everybody that would be a help. So, yes you're free to choose your own groups. So you can either do the project by yourself, or do it in a small group. A small group that you create yourselves. But what I will do in the meantime is create a project project groups. and put everybody in their own group. So the people doing them individually or. Local have will keep their group of one. And then the people who are wanting to work together, when you specify when you submit your proposal. will adjust the group memberships so that instead of, say, there are four people in the group that you're. Forming for the project. Then, instead of each of those four people each having their own group, there will be one group for them that contains the four of you. Does that make sense. Okay, so. can do it right now actually. let's. See you can see. The interface to deal with this in your courses. or moodle. So it's interesting. Well, maybe interesting is too strong a word. And I realized. That with the switching of sections. There are people now in both the 01 F group and zero, and our group. So when I thought there were. 127. Students just by looking at these two, then I realized that. there's some people in both lists. So the groups aren't. maintained based on registrations they're only set up once. So. we're not going to deal with anything that requires the these groups anymore. So it's just an observation so. i'm going to auto create groups. So the at symbol create groups with names containing letters. The hash symbol used to be create groups of numbers so let's do letters that's okay. everybody's in their own group. Everyone is sending me direct messages today in chat. Okay, so i'm not going to. i'm not going to reply in the chat to the questions. But let me read them make sure that okay. Let me get through the administrative stuff here first so can we do individual projects, yes. The groups try the class wiki stay the same right, yes, these are the class where groups. So doesn't have to be about a book you don't have to do a book review for the project that's one option that I presented. So I think if you were if you were. talking with a documentary or. Some other. i'm not going to try to enumerate everything, but if if you have an idea that you'd like to work. On with your project. And you'd like to discuss it with me, we can do that an office hours or. or an email or. Online somehow we can communicate and resolve some of those issues. Okay. So. mercy fields is can we talk about any topics related to privacy and civil rights, which is spying on surveillance. That seems quite reasonable. So. Let me not get too far into that right now. Okay, let me finish doing the group thing.
hey.
hey Mr happening yes. I came over fist was mentioned last class or not, because they're going to be any return to in class, for your class.
So. You can call me Darrell that's fine you know darryl or Dr happening is.
Fine.
or like I said in zoom. vector happening, but. Anyway, sorry. So we decided in our class discussion. and Then we'll return on march 1 so if you're in the 01 F section. will be coming back on march first.
And i'm guessing goal and out what classroom that will be in closer to march 1. well.
As I recall, is classroom 125.
Okay cool Thank you.
So it's. it's newly renovated it's got nice seats and lots of technology in there. So. It should should be nice, so we have fewer people now in the face to face section. But.
I was signed up for the face to face and I didn't bother to change amaze will go to the in person rather meet you. Okay.
yeah so it's. i'm feeling i'm feeling. i'm eager to return to face to face meetings and i'm also anxious to turn to face to face meetings, because. Things are still. still happening. yeah they're definitely yeah. anyway.
I haven't even been to the university yet so it's going to be an experience in itself. Everything so far has been done on zoom.
Oh. So you're in your second year.
first year. first year.
Okay.
Well, can it can also then if you're in your second year and.
yeah cuz I could have started at the beginning of covert to technically yeah.
i'm in my second year of into the university.
But there's probably quite a few of us here that aren't a are having been to the university at all, yet.
As interesting oh.
And so.
With a notice to the people who are online. They may not actually be in Regina. So it's. there's a lots of. There are lots of rewards to being online in terms of. Being able to manage. participation from. From almost any location.
That.
means right because. Like a lot of us, maybe work or maybe. Like because I work full time and having everything online is very convenient for me, but you don't get the niceties that come with you know going to the university or the experience of going to it's about.
yeah. So it's. it's easier to be. disconnected I think. or just. Just to be. are not fully connected anyway, I mean. And so, this is a risk we can point out to that uh. it's apparent there's maybe the the risks to mental health. So.
You don't have the same stimulus for interaction with people who don't that social connection we actually get from being with people as a lot less nowadays and ends up bringing on more depression or anxiety, for example. yeah so.
I just wanted to say that there are resources for suit for you. And for me because it's i'm not immune to this either. So, so if you're. Having. issues and you want to have someone to discuss it with. You can talk to me but they're also mental health professionals available. Mental health resources for you. And I. I will post those. alright. So let me get back to making the project groups. So i'm saying everyone who's enrolled as a student. So i'm not. i'm not going to take them from a grouping that exists already. Okay, so we can. Okay, so this should do the trick let's do a preview. Okay, so that looks good. where's the button to. submit okay. OK, so now, the question of project. groups which are members of the pride the grouping project. So now if you're working individually, you can go ahead and submit. Your proposal. So that that technical hurdle is removed. So I would say, when you list for those of you who are doing a project in a group, if you list your group members. and include. everyone's you Regina. ID like for me that would be http ti n G D Epping D. If you include that that would be the most straightforward way to. be arranged the project groups.
Professor were you supposed to find this, you have our courses ID.
So. it's your. it's the email. address. Before the at sign.
into three letters and writing right. At time thing.
Okay, thank you.
Okay, so there we go that's one thing sorted out. Now I want to go over the. Results from our. filter bubble test activity. So I wrote a little Python script to. To processing here. Everyone see that's shared screen now with this list to search engines.
You betcha.
Thank you for that enthusiasm at 830 in the morning well it's nine o'clock now so. You get gets a little bit easier, as far as i'm concerned.
So be fair, this is my evenings I worked all night so. Good morning and good evening it's all the same.
Right.
that's based on.
Okay.
So.
So what I did was. If any of you familiar with Python. I made a dictionary, and then I went through the. spreadsheet which contains the search engine result search engine used. And the three URLs to harass to provide. So, then, I use the answers as keys in the dictionary so every time, so the first time. An answer was given. A store to one for that key so. And then, for each subsequent time that same answer was given a increment account. So we have lots of. Different variations on Google. So the thing about. Having all these google's. So the Google that appears at the top of the list. seems to be. The Google search engine. But Google chrome. is less clear because that's a web browser. So this might be in. Maybe an example of them. The fish is not knowing. The meaning of water. right because. we're on our laptops or computers or desktops or phones. And we're looking things up. But. When we do a search. or researching in the browser or researching. With. I was searching by pointing the browser add another. website that provides the search engine capabilities. That makes sense. So there's a little duck duck go. So those are the three search engines that are talked about. How many beings okay so three duck duck goes, I think we had about a five responses so. Thank you for your participation. 455 duck duck goes. And this last line one with the region searching disabled. So that's an interesting capability, because if you disable the searching then that's another.
I think I might have missed doing this, you can add another one to duck duck go. Okay.
So.
um. So it's not an assignment. So if you if you missed out there'll be other chances to do things. And I just. Like I said it for noon yesterday originally so that I have a bit of time to. Review things. So I. pushed it back to four. Anyway, so if you have a chance if you notice them, you have a chance to do them that's great but. it's not going to negatively affect your. you're standing in class, so I don't wanna. I don't want to make it about. Adding. Just thinking about checking completing activities, but then. i'd rather have you think about what's going on and have some fun. With this and. i'll stop rambling. So what I can. I didn't think about doing this before. But another way for me to present the results would be to. Look at the search engine. So Google duck duck go bang. Those are. Three well established search engines. Is anyone heard of client before. Right. So client is from the. So another thing that I noticed. So that does go has the here, let me. Go to my web browser we can look at the pages for each of them. Okay, so this is what Google search looks like.
If you're trying to show something currently we still see your terminal.
Right.
Thank you.
problem.
So this is what the Google home screen looks like. So what I noticed. it's available on being compared to Google is. A way to deal with. dates. To. Can narrow the search. To the past week. Okay, so that CBC news story appeared in the number two position. But i'm looking for. So that's without. Turning on location. So we can turn on Canada. Then. Then the cnbc article comes up here and number four position. yeah that's right so. three. The third organic search results. One is not paid for.
i'm Professor i'm pretty sure duck duck go um I can't remember there was also. The one search engine where it plants trees, they both actually get their search queries from Google and bing. So Google and bing are the only people that actually do search results because of the amount of data that they need to get and what Dr go does is they pay Google for the results, but they don't give any data to Google for the results.
when's the last time you read something about that because duck duck go has actually.
switch and they they might be being, I think, Dr Koh might be being and then the other, it was yeah. Eco SIA is is with Google, then.
Okay yeah cuz I I think duck duck go switched in.
Right.
They did dead. yeah ya know they fully corey and and deliver all of their information now.
Okay.
So that's. that's an interesting topic for. investigation. Just how. much difference is possible if we're only using. One or two sources, even though we have different trends. To facilitate the search. it's a bit like. browsers because there's own I think there's only. Two main. engines for browsers there's chromium and. And the firefox which is mozilla i'm not sure what the name. don't quote me on that.
I just like to update that i'm actually wrong, it was another engine I quickly looked it up it's not duck duck go if they have a hybrid engine now, instead of just pure farm.
Okay.
because, from what I remember reading was i'm like they tried to do it themselves, but the amount of data that they need in order to have web crawlers on every single website to. have them ranking in a in a search query the only two companies that can afford to do anything like that is Microsoft and Google, from what I remember.
yeah okay. So thanks for the clarification, the firefox engine is named gecko not. mozilla.
mozilla is the parent company of.
yeah.
yeah that's right.
anyway.
Let me. Come back to the Google one.
You think amazon's ever going to get started up in it, seeing as they have so much power now.
When they already control pretty much 30% of all web hosting.
Exactly, so why wouldn't they be able to host it with that much data right i'm surprised, they haven't jumped into that yet if they don't already provide a back end for somebody else.
Like it would be another big situation, though, people are way to use to Google.
But what if they provide the back end to somebody that is already hosting in known for that isn't you know, a big.
All Amazon does really as host a web services they don't. Like. The way Google ranks your results, is it has these trackers that every single time you use Google to click on a link it puts a tracker on that website, in order to see how many times it gets used in order to rank it in Google, so that happens yeah web crawlers and that happens, through. multiple uses of Google and Google has over. When was it when did it come out like 2005 so we've had all that head start to develop that much data which Amazon, we need to start from scratch. So no. i'm.
You make a very good point it is something that it's not easy to just start and get into you can't just all of a sudden, be a big player without having big player data already there, I agree.
And there's also. Not everyone is going to Google or bing to do web searches they they may do web searching they may do searches within. websites. as well, so.
But once the cookies placed and it's tracking from the first click doesn't matter how many links you go deeper you.
Know like the Web crawlers they'll go on the website and they'll check stuff like how many times, a term is mentioned in that website, or how many websites link to that website as like a reference.
And so yeah but the. Mr happening here was talking about. When you actually use Google or chrome. anytime you click on a link it's already implanted cookie or tracker to see how far and how much and how often and what you're looking at to bring all that data back to Google to analyze and see and kind of provide better results to.
Do you know they're actually getting rid of that they're going to start doing more of what they do on like mobile. So, right now, they need cookies which track you all over the web and they get saved on your computer. But other competitors use cookies so what google's going to start doing is using a unique identifier, because almost everyone has a Google account. And so you'll have like a like a Google ID essentially that follows you around the Internet and that's how they're going to get their data, instead of cookies they're going to totally get rid of cookies off Google chrome.
So if you use. Like incognito mode, for example. It technically none of your like browsing history or cookies or site data they're they're not saved on on your device. So.
they're not saved on your device but they're still collect like if you use incognito it's still. filter by everyone.
not collected there they're not saved anywhere they're just analyze.
But not saved on your computer but.
No, no. can't find your incognito browsing history on your Google account it's not there.
You can but. Why wouldn't they just state that data for themselves.
fair but if they do actually do what their privacy policy states and not go directly against it, then they technically don't store that data.
Privacy policy I don't think it's a legally binding document, so I don't think they really. have a history of doing stuff like that. I wouldn't trust it too much, if you do value privacy don't think it got me those way to get around it.
Oh, I don't think it is a way of getting around it, I agree, but i'm just saying that. Privacy policy is still a binding contract and you can take that to court it's something that is law abiding. yeah.
Okay.
thanks for the.
And yeah leave. Your ISP conceal that because they just see packets that's all they care about.
Okay, so let me get back to our. search engine. pages so i'm back on Google. and Nothing. that's that's interesting clicking on tools changes the line below the. The header there. It is available, but how many people. filtering based on date. is available, how many people. realize. You could bring that up by clicking on tools. What happens if we. choose another locale. So this is client. Let me go back to Canada. um okay. So that CBC article is there again. So let me before we get. To the end of our meeting here, let me go through some of the results. Go back to this. So. In this case, i've combined. All three or else. So if URL appears in any of those in the first, second or third positions. i'm counting it the same way. So the most. The one that occurs, the most. Is from the CDC in the United States vaccines coburn 19 considerations. But 6060 times that appear. And then. De sh.ca.gov. I want to say, the US Department of Homeland. that's wrong way around. But it's a California. State Government website here. And then. That was almost. As a frequently occurring 58. And then the CBC news. result. And then, then they start taking a. Quite a drop off. So those first three and then. Another the CDC. And then. There are two versions. Of the same CBC website web story. The same. Numbers here. trinity health.org edmonton ctv. National review. down here. There are a couple. APP state.edu. bubble point test. So there were, I noticed a couple searches done on filter bubble test instead of covert vaccine triage. And then I also noticed here there's. These aren't. These are bread crumbs from the search. From the result page and not the URL. So. I will do. Another breakdown based on search engine. not put that online. So. Anything catch your attention in the news over the weekend, since our last meeting.
Does this gatlin is going to go mask lists after February 4 or whatever.
And, seeing that.
eskimo was talking about how he's going to remove the band after February for throwing out the band, the implementation of masks and requirements.
yep saskatchewan is dropping off.
Also, when a Scott mode announced this they didn't have the medical doctor that's always with him I can't remember his name. They later interviewed him like two hours later and he's like i'm. At we'll see we'll see about this and then. Basically, nothing happened, he was never put on the news again after that. He wasn't agreeing with Scott. A few, if I can find you a set date.
yeah. So I looked last night and. What I heard was he was looking to remove the. vaccine passport. As soon as possible. yeah so. there's lots of. Lots of conway stuff going on. But to focus on. Your most. pronouncements over the weekend. He made a claim. That vaccination does not help transmission is not reduced transmission of the virus.
yeah my apologies, it was a vaccine mandate on masks I got a link here wasn't. Okay.
Thanks. So what i'd like to. discuss with you is how do we evaluate. The statement that vaccine vaccinations don't. Help us transmission of on the Crown. crown.
Considering there's no active testing on people that are vaccinated it's really hard to officially say real numbers on it.
yeah.
So.
There are there been breakthrough infections, but there's also. severely limited testing and there's no. mechanism for the government to track rapid antigen tests.
there's also nothing built into the vaccine itself but prevents you from transmitting it, the only thing about seeing was supposed to do is prevent you from getting the serious illness and life threatening parts of covert.
That is entirely incorrect. At the beginning, they said you don't catch it you don't transmit it you don't nothing, it is the end of covert is what they claimed that was what I was supposed to do. we'll.
Find out the beginning, but they are quickly followed up with always no way entirely just there to help you not die.
Definitely not quick. The gentle retreat over time to now over the past year.
yeah the unfortunate thing with the general public when they don't necessarily have a whole lot experience science is they don't realize that sometimes things change like. You don't have all the information right away, sometimes it can be a little bit Gray, and so. You know they modify. What they say over time, based on the science, you know.
and If everyone around the world had been able to be vaccinated. Good two shots of. Pfizer or Madonna or astra zenica or. move Those are the three big ones that i'm aware of.
Amazon Johnson yes that's right Johnson Johnson the single shot of Johnson and Johnson.
Had vaccine nation been possible. immediately when when they were developed and approved for emergencies and parts of the world. There would have been much less opportunity for a variance of concern like delta and AMI cron. To develop. and refer, so the finding is that the vaccines are less effective. With a new variants but at the same time. So. diverse. Originally it was 95% effectiveness against infection now it's lower around 70% I believe. But I. I will have to check the numbers.
But how do you prove the numbers when they don't actively test the people who are vaccinated.
well. So. But going on the basis of the people who are receiving the PCR tests. So. There are lots of ins and outs certainly. So I see we're out of time here, so let me. know. i'll create another activity for free to work on. Serving collect some data around. answering the question about vaccines and transmission. Okay, anyway, thank you for today. And we'll see you on Thursday. Sorry, I think. we're past. well.
Thank you, Professor.
profit. office hours today.
yeah.
I see you later Dr happening.
Thanks. I look forward to. Take care.
I just have a question. Are you available from 11 to 12.
millet between 11 and 12 today.
Yes.
yeah I have my officer between noon and between 10 and noon today.
Okay sounds good Okay, thank you.
you're welcome.
Take care.
bye.
Okay i'm signing off i'll be back in my office and 10 minutes or so.

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but the groups to write the class wiki stays the same? isn't it?
is the project have to be about book? or could it be about movie, short story, a paper?
Can we talk about any topics related to privacy and civil right? such as spying or surveillance?
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safari is also a web browser and not a search engine
@duckDuckgo users, do you notice a major difference?
If you’re okay with spending a little extra time for your search then no. No major difference. But I do miss that Google has the scores for your preferred team produced in a nice manner. Otherwise the searches for me have been similar.
Yes, it’s a search engine from France.
google has that aswell
The first one is an AD
it would be 3rd if we dont count the ads right?
Ecosia is the other one.
they both used Bing tho
"DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources"
Firefox engine is Gecko
does Brave use its own thing or is it based on Chromium?
probably yes
web crawler
Yeah google ditched FLOC and are going towards Topics.
I mean your ISP can view your incognito history
Never tried before
Also, Google search allows certain operators like "before:01/01/2021" for searching by data before Jan 1 2021
I wonder how much the time of query effects the results of the queries from our bubbles. For example, if I searched on Friday, and someone searched on Monday, there may be newer and more relevant results that I could've been shown too.
Lots of convoy stuff
there's that trucker convoy thing
convoy convoy convoy
Did they actually have a set date?
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He’s removing vax mandates not masks
https://sasknow.com/2022/02/01/moe-doubles-down-on-goal-to-remove-vaccination-negative-test-mandate/
He said the vaccine doesn't reduce transmition at all?
That's what he said
transmission*
No one even knew if it would work
https://twitter.com/PremierScottMoe/status/1487460075102871554?s=20&t=h4uV99HO7IX7k5Hh1sgFvA
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The most important thing that I encountered:

today we learned about the cookies and web crawlers that are used to track the user's activities on the Internet and how they are stealing data without proper consent.
You can filter your search on google using the tool button under the search bar. You can set a time frame against your search.
that different search engins will provide different results
Is that there are so many different types of browsers, all of whom provide drastically different search results
In today's class we have discuss that wje
First know there is a search engine named DuckDuckGo.
I learned that there are a lot of web browsers are owned by larger companies, like google.
Today we gained a better understanding of how we decide what web browsers to use and how said web browsers decide what sites to send us to. We discovered that they use web crawelers to rank sites and have algoritms to compute the information that they give us.
Today, we identified Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo as popular search engines among our classmates and we also addressed choices of search engines, privacy issues, tracking user search information, and ranking the results.
Different search engines show different results lists for the same topic.
The most important thing I learned is how search engines are used and what the use to track a user on the internet. The different results when searching "covid vaccine triage" between different search engines was interesting, as different engines gave different results (especially when location is enabled/disabled).
I learned how algorithms decide what we get to see on the internet and whatnot. The filter bubble is our personal unique information that we live in online. The algorithms let us see things that it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.
that search engines uses web crawler to track your activities
After listening to other student's discussions, I have learnt that there is a lot more going on behind the search engines. I never knew much about cookies and web crawlers. It piqued my interest and in fact, I made a short research about it. Google and Bing utilize web crawlers to access websites. Another search engine that is discussed during the class is DuckDuckGo. I have heard about it but have not had the chance to learn more about it. It's interesting since they claim that they do not track its user.
cookies and web crawlers that are used to track the user's activities on the Internet
Today's class started with a brief information about the groups for project. Either we can do individually or upto group of 4 people. Professor put everyone in their own group. Then we continued with the bubble text and saw all results from different students. Then we had some discussion about the cookies and web crawlers that are used to track a person's activities in internet and how it actually makes web surfing experience bad.
The most important thing I learnt today was how a majority of our search results were very similar, I initially thought they would differ substantially because I always thought that google uses suggestive search results. Along with that it was interesting to see that most people use google as their search engine.
oday, I learned and used the characteristics of the ducduckko search engine. I didn't know there was a search engine like this. It is a search engine that does not collect any personal information and does not collect cookies, so I think it will be a great help to protect my personal information.
The most important thing I learned today is that when you search the same words on different search engines, each are going to provide different result. It is also interesting learning about different search engines because I've never know what duckduckgo or qwant or opera gx until today.
i learned that different search engines have different algorithms that recommend websites to users differently.
That browsers use web crawlers to order the websites presented to the user and that this data has been accumulated for over a decade. This is one of the reasons why someone would get different results when searching for the same thing on a different browser (besides from the bubble factor). I knew google had a way of ordering/ranking websites but couldn’t remember how they did it.
Based on the videos we had to watch for today, I agree with Don Norman that "intense fear paralyzes you," because it affects the way the brain works, which causes fear and anxiety to help people focus. Additionally, fear of judgement also causes a person to gain a new confidence, "self-efficacy," where you get the sense of changing the world for the better. I agree that fear can encourage a person to do better, but one shouldn't let fear stop them from doing something.
Is that different search engines can use different techniques to filter through content
The bubble test really helped me understand the extent of which results are tailored to the person based on their ip adresses and based on what browser or search engine they were using
Today I have learned about cookies and web crawlers that are used to track user activities on internet. It is also called spider or spiderbot. It browses the world wide web which is operated by search engines. When we search some thing on internet, search engines don't know what websites exist on internet. The program have to crawl and index before they give you the proper result based on your key word. Search engine uses web crawlers to gives us best result for what we are searching as there are many thing
Getting to know about different search engine. Also, in terms of privacy google and bing share or sell data to third party according to their business model. These two search engines use cookies to recommend us different website and ads. DuckDuckGo is the most private search engine which doesn't store user data. Also no ads target any user and search result of each user is the same. Personally, I prefer using DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons.
there is a lot of search engines to use
Privacy is harder to get than i expected in the modern day
The things needed for a search engine to function
Today, we have discussed about the project proposal group. And we also did the discussion about the activity top three website and which search engine most people used such as Google, Bing, Duckduck go and many more.
In todays lecture professor discussed about the project. He discussed how groups should be made and also informed that we have to add username and id of UR courses for each student. We also discussed about the Filter bubble test and its results. The outcome of the test was that maximum people used Google as the main search engine while some students also used DuckDuckGo and Bing. We discussed about the cookies and how google stores your search history, this the most important thing that I learned today.
Looked at the result of bubble test and web results of different search engines. Learned a lot about search engines and web browsers such as how to modify the information you want and how the search engines priorities the data we are looking for. Current scenario of the vaccines.
The most important thing that I learned today was about web crawlers. I had never heard of them before. This stuff drew my attention. I knew that different search engines use cookies to provide good services. But using web crawlers to track users’ activities doesn’t sound good to me; I thought it would be against government policies. This kind of activities arises a question to me that do these companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook have grown so much that we don't have any replacements for them?
The most important thing from today's class was project. a student can submit project individually or in a group of maximum four members. they can submit a research paper, book review or a documentary. The deadline for the project proposal is 14th february and the project deadline is 11th april. project can be on the topic related to the class for example on security, spying, surveillance. Then after that the important discussion was on the the results of the bubble filter activity on the covid vaccine tri
The search engine stuff really got me involved in the subject and changing region does affect the result or not..
So by changing different search engine I got to know different information on different region
Tech company gathers our search history to improve their search engine and also earn from displaying advertisement that we might be interested. So the question is should we let them to collect our data? It is similar to "Look at that guy's data or let them be?". But this time, it is more easier to decide, because we don't have to think about moral, we only need to evaluate what we gain and what we lost to give our decisions
I learned alot about google we can find the best news regarding th topic we cover. I also got to know how we can maintain our privacy by using some other websites qwant i got to know regarding the tools which was kinda interesting and good to know about ty for some imformation i believe it will help in many thing we look forward to.
Moe doubles down on goal to remove vaccination, negative test mandate.It can be seen that the vast majority of people in all countries around the world are willing to receive the New Crown vaccine, and only a small percentage of people are not willing to receive the New Crown vaccine. It can be seen that Chinese people have the highest willingness to receive the vaccine, with 97% of Chinese people saying they are willing to receive the vaccine. Each person has different reasons for anxiety, so to say what t
Today we discussed about search engines and how efficiently each of them works as compared to each other. For example DuckDuckGo is also one of them and works similar to google but consumes more time and so google is preferred. We also looked at what shows up on google after searching covid-19 triage and discovered various links and websites coming up after searching it. Students also gave their opinions on different search engines and discussed the same among themselves.
Most people use the google search engine.
Todays lecture started by taking attendance. After that professor putted every student in temporary group that can be adjusted after the project proposal is submitted. After that there was a discussion on ‘Bubble Text Result’ and we found majority used google and others were bing and DuckDuckGo. At the end there was a small discussion on in person classes that are scheduled to start on 1 march.
I gained a greater understanding for how the upcoming project is going to work.
DuckDuckGo does not track users because it does not store their search history, does not track their IP addresses, and essentially has no personal data to sell, whether or not the user is in private browsing mode. It stands out from its competitors early on, often in the privacy it offers users - other search engines have refused to offer the same privacy until DuckDuckGo.

The most difficult thing for me to understand:

The last 15-20 were not clear due to choppy internet.
I dont fully understand how the covid and truck current events relate to the class
I learned about search engines and how they work. Every browser has its own specific search engine it operates which is unique in returning specific types of results. Majority of students are biased towards google and the results of a google search will hold more influence amongst a population. The other search engines used were Bling and DuckDuckGo. The 2 links resulted in opposing results.
It is really tough to grasp just how much influence the algorithm used by search engine can have on ones life. If two people were in the same field, with the same capabilities but used different search engines for their entire lives. I wonder how much their knowledge on the subject matter would differ!
After today's meeting, I reflected on the discussion and found many areas quite fascinating. There were some areas that I was familiar with, however, some I wasn't familiar and I found it difficult to keep up. I would like to learn and understand the search engine more and how the data is collected, and manipulated in order to promote products based of the data.

The thing about which I would most like to know more:

I would like to know more is the porject. If we want to work in a group, do they have to be in the same class section as us? also, I would like to know how the bubble test fits the course content that we have read in the textbook so far.
I would like to understand why "infection" is the meaningful endpoint with respect to vaccine efficacy against COVID variants. While vaccinated people are more likely to be infected with Omicron, statistics still show remarkable effectiveness versus hospitalization and death, which I thought would be the only meaningful endpoint at this point.
The thing that I would most like to know more about is how search engines work? How do they get the best results? How do they track what is being searched? Do multiple search engines run on the same back end (Google's and Bing's))
I'd like to know more about search engines
Got to know about the latest news around our province. Secondly we discussed about the group assignment as to what to use such as Research Paper or Book Review
Today the prof told us about class group work and I learned about the task during today's lesson. Also, I was able to learn about blog style and how to complete assignments by visiting the website and wiki.
The filter bubble test results were discussed in today’s class. The results showed how different were the search results depending on the search engines used. This is because every search engine uses different algorithms to produce result for a particular search. The search results are also based on Personalization and Location observed using cookies and web crawlers. These results can nudge a person’s mindset towards the opposite direction without guarantee of its accuracy and authenticity.
Why has google continued to hold a monopoly as a search engine? It seems strange how we see so much competition in other areas when it comes to technology (operating systems, hardware like HDD and VR tech) but not search engines. What would a world with multiple main search engines look like compared to ours where the majority uses google? Especially with meeting 5's discussion with how social media companies maintain polarizing algorithms, would there be more polarization due to different search results?
Today we talked about the bubble result that used by google search
With all of the search engines people can choose from, why is google the number one search engine in the world but has the most user data issues? Why don't we see more people using microsoft edge or duckduckgo?
One thing that I would like to know more about in relation to today's lecture is web tracking. I somewhat understand the idea of tracking but I would like to know more about the practical approaches to tracking and more about the consequences of internet tracking. More broadly, I'm interested in how trackers influence individuals and firms and the way they interact with each other in today's digital age.
I would like to know more about how search engines track peoples input and sort their results. I have heard about website tracking and cookies before but I have never really looked into what they actually do and what data they get. I would like to also know more about how search engines choose to sort their data, and what criteria they value most out of a search result.
The impact of the time/day on a search engine's results. For example, would we have had more similar results if all of the samples for the filter bubble were taken at the same time? In the internet era everything changes so quickly, I feel as though it's an important consideration.
I would like to know more about the project and how in depth we're supposed to go in each topic such as the topic civil rights, or surveillance.
the thing I would most like to know more about would have to be the search engines and how they curate their search results. The covid results we went over are interesting but not near as interesting if you start searching more politically left or right opinions/facts. Certain search engines such as google censor the results from on side more than the other for example.
I want to learn more about search engines and the pros and cons of many different kinds. Also, are they all designed in nearly identical ways? How do they each decide to filter their search results? If it is almost similar, does it make a difference which one to use?
From today's lecture discussion, I would like to know more about how different search engines such as Google and Bing track user data based on our browsing activity. I would also like to know more about how is this user data managed and used for advertising and marketing. I would also like to know more about how or if companies that collect and share user data without the user consent can be stopped from doing so to allow information privacy for individuals.
I wanna know more about how technology is being implemented with the pandemic going on.
I would like to learn more about how “web crawlers” and cookies work. Someone breifly mentioned in class about how googles policies are not necessarily binded by law, what are the steps that government is taking in terms of privacy and further issues surrounding tech?
The thing which I got to know is like google is keeping track of us while we search something so I just wanna more things regarding privacy and protection against this!
The transmission thing that we were discussing after vaccination and before vaccination like do vaccine reduces the risk of transmission ?
I want to learn more about the web crawlers that are used by search engines. Is it ethical and okay to use web crawlers to gather user's data?
Today prof told us regarding project as well as project groups. I did not understand the difference between blog and personal blog. Which was most difficult things for me to understand.
i would like to learn about cookies and crawlers in details to learn about their importance in online business.
Do web browsers like google chrome still keep the data somewhere even if we use the incognito mode?
How are the search results ordered. Not every search is humanly allocated. They would have a system that is so sophisticated that it gives us the right information. I would like to know the behind the scenes of this process.
What is the most secure search engine?
How companies and governments monitor and keep track of peoples data that they share online. Also, I would like to learn more about the different ways to keep my information private and stop companies from accessing my more private information.
About cookie and its history
After listening about web crawlers and cookies it got me thinking when we use the VPN our IP address changes does it mess with web crawlers I would like to hear more about it
In todays class, we discussed about the assignment submission. We also discussed about last time mgt (mgt6). We also tried to search in DuckDuckGo and we doubt out that DuckDuckGo search results are from google and mainly Microsoft bing.
I'm curious to see how the major search engines, like Google and Bing, adapt to the growing demand for more privacy online. The major part of their revenues come from ad sales that rely on a certain amount of tracking. How will they still offer the same service if they're not able to make the same revenues?
I would like to know more about if searching in the engine or a browser differ. Also, I would like to know more about how much the time of query affects the results of the queries from our bubbles/ search. For example, if someone search about a certain topic on Wednesday, and someone else searched on Monday, would there be new and more relevant results that the first person could've been shown to?

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