Google as teacher: Everything your students know they learned from searching Google

SAVVY SEARCHING Google Scholar revisited

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to revisit Google Scholar. Design/methodology/approach – This paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Google Scholar. Findings – The Google Books project has given a massive and valuable boost to the already rich and diverse content of Google Scholar. The downside of the growth is that significant gaps remain for top ranking journals and serials, a...

Expert Searching in the Google Age

My Google Glass Sees Your Passwords!

In this white paper, we introduce a novel computer vision based attack that automatically discloses inputs on a touch enabled device. Our spying camera, including Google Glass, can take a video of the victim tapping on the touch screen and automatically recognize more than 90% of the tapped passcodes from three meters away, even if our naked eyes cannot see those passcodes or anything on the to...

Cleaning Your Wrong Google Scholar Entries

Entity categorization – the process of grouping entities into categories for some specific purpose – is an important problem with a great many applications, such as Google Scholar and Amazon products. Unfortunately, many real-world categories contain mis-categorized entities, such as publications in one’s Google Scholar page that are published by the others. We have proposed a general framework...

Privacy in Danger: Let's Google Your Privacy

Protection of personal data is a requirement from both ethical and legal perspectives. In the Internet, search engines facilitate our lives by finding any searched information within a single-click time. On the other hand, they threaten our privacy by revealing our personal data to others. In this paper, we give concrete examples of Google personal data exploits against user privacy, discuss th...