"This is an excellent book that provides a unique perspective on the field of web search studies. Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin place search where it is best placed: in everyday life. Search has become neither the sole activity of finding reliable information on important topics nor just looking up facts or trivia but is used for both purposes interchangeably. This book, which is well-grounded in the literature from different fields, provides an excellent basis for understanding search as an integral part of everyday life." - Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany "This is a marvelously written, beautifully researched volume which explores the centrality of search to our lives. It ranges fluently across a number of fields fluently to produce fresh insights into the topics such as the creation of new temporalities and meaning-making in information infrastructures." - Geoffrey Bowker, University of California Irvine, USA "Search is probably the most important concept in library and information science and is increasing, as demonstrated in the book, also studied by many other disciplines, including media studies and science studies. The book does a great job by presenting new knowledge of such an interdisciplinary nature.

It is well known that there are many perspectives (or "paradigms") in these fields, and this book advocates that search and search engines should be based in the perspective of everyday life and practice studies, and thereby it represents an important new voice in this extremely important field. " - Birger Hjørland, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ;P>- Geoffrey Bowker, University of California Irvine, USA "Search is probably the most important concept in library and information science and is increasing, as demonstrated in the book, also studied by many other disciplines, including media studies and science studies. The book does a great job by presenting new knowledge of such an interdisciplinary nature. It is well known that there are many perspectives (or "paradigms") in these fields, and this book advocates that search and search engines should be based in the perspective of everyday life and practice studies, and thereby it represents an important new voice in this extremely important field. " - Birger Hjørland, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.