Google's DoubleClick deal brings focus on privacy: ... Nearly lost in the news about the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's approval on Thursday of Google's acquisition of DoubleClick was another action by the agency: the publication of a proposed set of...
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SSRN-Federal Search Commission? Access, Fairness and Accountability in the Law of Search: FRANK A. PASQUALE III Seton Hall University - School of Law OREN BRACHA University of Texas at Austin - School of Law July 23, 2007 U of Texas...
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if:book: a few rough notes on knols: ... Google's new encyclopedia will go head to head with Wikipedia in the search rankings, though in format it more resembles other ad-supported, single-author info sources like the About.com or Squidoo. The knol-verse...
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A lot of folks around the Web have been wondering when I will weigh in on the new Google project, Knol. Unfortunately, my computer at the university of Virginia has been unwilling to even view either this blog or Sivacracy.net...
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Eszter Hargittai on Crooked Timber: "What's in a Knol?": I address three issues concerning this new service of trying to create something Wikipedialike within Google’s domain: First, will it gain popularity? Second, what might we expect in terms of quality?...
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Post I.T. -- A Technology Blog From The Washington Post - (washingtonpost.com): The ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to Google's chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt yesterday, posing some rather pointed questions about the...
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Google's robots canceled this guy's AdSense account and did not explain why: ... There had been a large uptick in ad clicks--as I think they are called--the previous few days, taking me from about $15 a day in average revenue...
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The great Frank Pasquale, writing onConcurring Opinions: Google Street View: All the World's a Stage posted by Frank Pasquale Yesterday I joined the NPR "Talk of the Nation" program to discuss Google's privacy policies. The callers were most fascinated by...
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From Techdirt: Google's PageRank Works Like Our Brains We've joked in the past about how Google effectively acts as a a secondary or "backup" brain for many people. However, perhaps it wasn't so much of a joke. New research on...
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Ed Felten writes on Freedom to Tinker that we can distill some general lessons from the dumb moves Facebook made with their social marketing tool, Beacon: (1) Overlawyerization: Organizations see privacy as a legal compliance problem. They're happy as long...
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Over on his blog, Print is Dead, Jeff Gomez writes: ... I might agree that being digitally adept maybe isn’t generational, but there’s no way you can say that kids today aren’t Digital Natives. It’s a fact. From the moment...
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My neighbor and colleague Leslie Johnston writes: ... I have a slightly different spin and some different reasons, but I don't buy it either. I often take part in discussions about services for faculty and students, and sometimes hear ageist...
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For a while I have been recoiling at all that talk about how young people today are "born digital" or are part of some special or distinct experiential universe that grants them special prowess or powers and blinds them to...
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Check out this hilarious scanning job Google did on The Gentleman's Magazine from 1855 for Book Search. Here is a frozen image:...
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Check out Google and Its Enemies by Jonathan V. Last. It does not break new ground. But it responds to Jonathan Band's arguments pretty well. It's a decent introduction to the copyright questions. Thanks to Cathy Davidson for the tip....
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Over at Techdirt Tim Lee assures us that most of the problems that Google Book Search critics have cited will be worked out through the magic of competition. After all, he reminds us, there are other services like the OCA...
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