From GoogleBlogoscoped: Marissa Mayer of Google says: Social search happens every day. When you ask a friend “what movies are good to go see?” or “where should we go to dinner?”, you are doing a verbal social search. You’re trying...
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I Want Media: David Eun: Google Won't Become a Media Company The head of Google's content partnerships insists that the Internet behemoth won't be a competitor to traditional media. Producing content is "not our business," he says. "Journalists, news bureaus...
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IEEE Spectrum: The Gray Areas of Search-Engine Law: The Gray Areas of Search-Engine Law By Mark Anderson First Published January 2008 U.S. law has not caught up with search-engine technology and its implications 29 January 2008—The law is always playing...
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RealClearMarkets: Might Google Buy the New York Times? By John Ellis In the last five years, the New York Times has declined in value by an astonishing 70 percent. There is no indication that things will get better any time...
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Let me be clear. What Google.org is doing should be applauded. It's experimental, innovative, and bold. Those are three characteristics that the philanthropic world could use more of. The best account of Google.org can be found in this article from...
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Julia of The Folks' Web writes this smart and helpful response to this blog: ... Vaidhyanathan seems to think that it would have been better if the government would have set up something like this as a public service, rather...
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Wired Science from Wired.com: Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data By Alexis Madrigal EmailJanuary 18, 2008 | 2:23:21 PMCategories: Dataset, Research Einsteingoogle Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for...
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This is pretty funny....
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From the Times of London: From The Times January 14, 2008 White bread for young minds, says university professor Alexandra Frean, Education Editor Google is “white bread for the mind”, and the internet is producing a generation of students who...
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TCS Daily - Google the Destroyer: ... In The Google Enigma, tech guru Nicholas Carr notes: "The many businesses that see Google as an actual or potential competitor include software houses, advertising agencies, telephone companies, newspapers, TV networks, book publishers,...
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From Digging Digitally: At the last ASOR (American Schools of Oriental Research), Gary L. Christopherson (University of Arizona) gave an interesting talk called "'Google' Archaeology: data and applications for everybody." The talk discussed the huge and under-recognized impact Google is...
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Video guides to privacy policies and settings....
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TechCrunch reports that Wikia Search Is A Complete Letdown. Many of us have waited a year as the Jimmy Wales hype machine promised a human powered search engine that could take on Google. Tonight that search engine launched at alpha.search.wikia.com,...
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Check out this report that examines and rates leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007....
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From Digital Natives: When we talk about Digital Natives, are we just talking about privileged kids with access to technology? Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of an upcoming book on Google, thinks so: "Invoking generations invariably demands an exclusive focus on people...
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Hi. Thanks for being patient with my silence the last couple of weeks. I stopped typing to let my hands and shoulders heal. Oh, and I went skiing. That was nice. So I am back and in the writing groove....
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Rich Skrenta, co-founder of news site Topix and the Open Directory Project, writes that PageRank wrecked the web. I am not sure I follow his argument. But it's interesting. Over at Smartmobs, Marius Chitosca writes about Skrenta's new project: a...
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