Google raises our expectations about things both deep and shallow. Unhappiness and anxiety dwell in that space between reality and expectations. When our expectations about significant things - justice, peace, health, and knowledge - exceed reality by significant margins,... continue reading "Comments, please: How Chapter 2.1 opens" »

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On September 8, 2007, a reporter for an obscure news company called Income Securities Advisors typed "bankruptcy 2008" into a Google search box. Google News service instantly alerted the reporter to an article from the a newspaper called the South... continue reading "Comments, please: A slice of the introduction draft" »

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Michael Zimmer: This week, Google launched Google Latitude, a new Google Maps feature that lets users share location data with friends, using either a mobile phone or through an interface on iGoogle. (see how it works here) Unsurprisingly, concerns have... continue reading "Zimmer says Latitude is not a privacy nightmare" »

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Au Courant: Google, Robert Darnton, and the Digital Republic of Letters Robert Darnton recently published an essay in the New York Review of Books on the Google settlement. There has been much commentary in blogs, listserves, and print media. Below... continue reading "Paul Courant replies to Darnton " »

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IHT.com: International Herald Tribune Google executives on trial in Italy By Elisabetta Povoledo Tuesday, February 3, 2009 MILAN: Four executives of Google went on trial Tuesday, accused of crimes stemming from the posting of a video on its Italian-language Web... continue reading "Google executives on trial in Italy - International Herald Tribune" »

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Google Blogoscoped: Google is cancelling their Google Research Datasets aka Palimpsests program. Its aim was to provide large data sets for others to use. Wired in January this year wrote that Palimpsests' storage "will be free to scientists and access... continue reading "Google Stops Research Datasets Program" »

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GoogleBlogoscoped: When Google's "Did You Mean" Pushes Away Better Results Google's special "Did you mean" feature tends to get obtrusive at times. As you might have noticed, the general trend with Google over the years is that they get more... continue reading "When Google's "Did You Mean" Pushes Away Better Results" »

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Balkinization: Beyond Competition: Preparing for a Google Book Search Monopoly Frank Pasquale Like Robert Darnton, I look to the upcoming Google Book Search Settlement hearing with a mixture of wonder and trepidation. The prospect of constructing a digital library of... continue reading "Pasquale on the GBS settlement" »

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From Books Do Furnish a Room: Publishing, Copyright, Google I'll start with a confession: I was wrong about the Google Books Project. And my wrongness is underscored by just how right Siva Vaidhyanathan--whose worries I dismissed at the time as... continue reading "Second thoughts on Google Book Search -- post-settlement" »

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