Think about the filter bubble video from last week. That talked about google and we're in library databases, but could the basic idea of a filter bubble apply to the different databases? Why or why not? Include which databases you searched and any differences you noticed in the results you got. What, if any, differences did you notice in the types of topics covered in each?
I think that the idea of bubble filters apply to most on online data bases. Bubble filter and tailored results are what made google so popular and the most visited website in the world. I think that other online search engines have tried to match their success. I know for a fact that microsoft based bing has tried to mock the tailored results. A couple years ago google filed a law suit against them because they were using googles results on their site and google caught them. I would think that the library based data bases always return the same information. When I have searched the libraries databases I have received the same results every time I do not think that the library has filter bubbles. Hopefully soon google and other sites will give you the option to choose how you want the filter to work. The libraries databases has a lot more scholarly articles and words. It omits all the hearsay that google leaves in. I dont think that the filter bubble should apply to the other databases unless they become a lot bigger and finding results would be hard unless they have the filters. But if they did i would hope they would give you the option to filter what you wanted.
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