By comparison, weekly visitors to the privacy settings page jumped by 600, 000 users per week immediately following Facebook's October announcement that user profiles would be open to public search engines.

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Search engines such as Google have ushered in the era of open-source learning.

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Some commentators, including blogger Jeff Jarvis, question the value of specialized search engines, likening them to fences that disrupt the "open prairie" of the Web.

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Their innovations range from cloud development tools and Big Data security and analysis applications, to search engines for voice recordings, behavioral biometric solutions for fighting fraud, open source technologies, and personal financial management tools for young people.

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Cybercriminals and security researchers have used search engines, including Google, for years to scour the Web for instances of outdated code open to intrusions.

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