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On the Sociometry of Search Engines A Historical Review of Methods Katja Mayerl
of optimization that spring from it. Social relations, the capital of the network
society, are profoundly shaped by infbrmetrics and s'bjected to the requirement of visibility.'Ihe algorithms of a search engine turn normative concepts into
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trollable, instrumental and communicative action, rendering search engines like (ioogle into instruments of power.'ltreir position as competent mediators in a flood of information allows them to deternrine the behavi,or of those who trust
in thern. This contribution traces the changing history of a method fundarnental to all current search engines - measuring the authority of a website thrclugh its links, and it discusses the perspectives on society underlying this. I start out with references provided by search engine designers on the historical roots ofthe technologies they use. 'l1ren I folkrw multiple traces on a search to see how these technologies determine authority. I examine concepts