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Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age

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Search engines provide us with the specific piece of information we are looking for on the Internet, be it any type of trivia, the weather forecast, the population of Guinea-Bissau or the verification of someone’s background.

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Thouvenin, F., Hettich, P., Burkert, H., Gasser, U. (2018). 2 Search Engines. In: Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age. Law, Governance and Technology Series, vol 38. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90230-2_4

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