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All documents and videos would be included in a document and in a video library, easily searchable using the ITTS. The Search tool will need the ability to search within these types of material. (...) Fields for inclusion are: o Filter by topic of interest (from list of IPBES topics and others) o Filter by country/region o Search by keyword(s) o Search by language o Search by author 2. (...) Approved documents will be available through future searches on the website. 6. Identify a knowledge gap: This feature will allow users to send feedback to the BES-Net team through an online form (‘Ask a question’ text field/’Make a suggestion’ text field).

The European Commission has defined an online platform as “an undertaking operating in two (or multi)sided markets, which uses the Internet to enable interactions between two or more distinct but interdependent groups of users so as to generate value for at least one of the groups”.5 Platforms involve services and activities such as marketplaces, social networking, search engines, payment systems and video sharing. 4. (...) The technologies required to store and process data can be costly but, once a system is operational, the 3 See https://marketingland.com/amazon-owns-more-than-90-market-share-across-5-different-product- categories-report-241135, http://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats and https://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-share-of-search-engines/. 4 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, 2018, Digital Platforms Inquiry: Preliminary Report (Canberra). 5 See the survey at https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/public-consultation-regulatory- environment-platforms-online-intermediaries-data-and-cloud. (...) For example, Google gives its Android operating system free of charge to mobile telephone manufacturers, thereby enabling it to collect user data.12 In addition, Google provides many other services, including video sharing, price comparison, cloud computing and online payment system services, and these have provided additional consumer data, increasing the quality of, on the one hand, its search engine services, and on the other hand, the value of data sold to advertisers for better-targeted advertising.

Argentina, Colombia and Mexico had referred to the guiding principles for the search for disappeared persons (CED/C/7), which the Committee had adopted at its sixteenth session, in April 2019. (...) The information provided by the State party continues to reflect sporadic, isolated and largely formalistic action that does not seem to be part of a previously defined strategy for search and investigation. Steps taken by family members, close contacts or representatives of the disappeared persons are still crucial to ensuring that searches and investigations move forward. 46. (...) Any decision to discontinue the search should be taken in a transparent manner and requires A/75/56 18 the prior and informed consent of the family members.

Personal sites Websites about and from private individuals; personal home page servers; websites with personal content; and personal blogs with no particular theme. Photo searches and images Facilitating the storing of and searching for images, photographs and clip art. (...) ST/IC/2014/27 7/9 14-64178 Shopping Bartering; online purchasing; coupons and free offers; general office supplies; online catalogues; and online malls. (...) These also include fake search websites that return paid advertising links.

Finally, the user can select one of the proposed items or try a new search if the proposed list is unsatisfactory. 28. (...) These words (called d-words in the following) are stored in the database and linked to the original versions of the dictionary items for later use by the online search engine. 29. The online search engine receives as input (from the user) a generic search string constituted by some words separated by blank spaces. First of all the search string is normalized, pruned and split into a collection of single search words, similarly to what made for the dictionary items.

However, the Internet Contents Safety Association (ICSA), a private sector association, has made efforts to block child pornography. In addition, search engines like Google take steps to prevent child pornography from appearing in their search results. Unfortunately, in spite of these efforts, child pornography, especially fall under Article 2.3(iii)) is widely available online and easily found through search engines. (...) Furthermore, members of the police force should see this issue as a priority and routinely conduct searches and follow up activities at retail stores in their neighborhoods

Facilitate aggregating, sharing and searching for information 21. Search engines supply the vital connection between users who search for information, and those who create, aggregate and publish it. (...) Information searches, however, are not unique to search engines. (...) Other areas, such as search, social media, and the sale of surveillance technologies, are also increasingly subject to such scrutiny, commensurate with their growing impact and influence on the exercise of freedom of expression online. 1.

This is by no means a comprehensive search of potential worldwide resources but provides an overview of the types of online and in-person courses that are available on the CTU Code. 5. This search showed that there are at least 11 institutions offering CTU-related training. (...) The table below provides the full list of the courses identified in the online search while the paragraphs below focus specifically on the e-learning programmes.

The OTA XML standard serves to improve the ability of consumers to search and book in a single online operation, as well as increasing aggregation processes in the industry. (...) The systems should facilitate interoperability between local tourism enterprises and foreign brokers and tourism portals, including traditional tour operators, online agencies, Internet travel-specific search engines or online intermediaries specialized in tourism niches. 34. (...) To do so, they should use all marketing channels and technology available such as tourist guides, brochures, fa irs, TV, radio, newspapers, direct marketing via email, search optimization on major Internet search engines, and cross-linking to traditional and online travel distributors to increase their worldwide visibility.

(c) Lack of coordination between search and investigation 49. A trend involving lack of coordination between search and investigation has been observed in the majority of requests for urgent action registered. (...) The Committee recommended the States parties concerned to adopt search and investigation strategies suited to the specific circumstances of each case, in accordance with principle 9 (2) of the guiding principles for the search for disappeared persons. (...) The Committee also recalled principle 7 of the guiding principles for the search for disappeared persons, according to which the search for a disappeared person should continue until his or her fate and/or whereabouts have been determined with certainty.