I Googled rainforest frogs.
1. The first site that came up was http://rainforest-australia.com/frogs.htm, this is a site referring to the frogs in Australia’s rainforest. It contains facts about the deferent species, along with their scientific name and a picture. The second site contains photographs of the rainforest frogs. It is similar to the first site in the fashion that is has the picture of the frog and a link underneath with the name and scientific name of each species. This site although has rainforest frogs from around the world. This site is http://travel.mongabay.com/topics/rainforest_frogs.html, it does not seem as reliable as the first, it contains a lot more advertisements. The third site is a slideshow of frogs with little fun facts under each picture. This site is http://kids.mongabay.com/slideshows/rainforest-frogs/, it is another page from the previous site. These results are fairly similar in the idea that they give a picture and some information about rainforest frogs.
2. I chose to have my roommate Google rainforest frogs as well. I was really surprised; she had the exact same results as I did. I guess they were the same since we both probably Google the same kind of words considering our classes are mostly the same and we visit the same sites.
3. Doing this experiment I was really surprised that Pariser’s argument was not supported. I think that the individual search is a good thing because it usually gives you what personally you are looking for. Personalized research impacts our research in only showing the user their views, but that is usually what we want to read anyways.
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