Gawker.com: Cheating Husband Said Caught Via Google Street View By Ryan Tate, 11:29 PM on Mon Mar 30 2009, 28,489 views A woman, checking out a female friend's house on Google Maps, was surprised to see her husband's Range Rover...
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CNet: March 31, 2009 8:00 AM PDT Wales giving up on Wikia Search by Rafe Needleman Wikia is announcing on Tuesday that it is closing the Wikia Search product. The service was intended to be a user-generated search engine, through...
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From the draft of my Street View chapter: 2.2 "Street View" and the politics of pervasive surveillance In March of 2009 Google debuted its "Street View" service as part of Google Maps in six cities in 25 cities in the...
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Here is a helpful spreadsheet with Google's search market shares for various countries. Note its popularity in the non-Russian states of the former Soviet Union and its unpopularity within Russia itself....
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A great course from UC Berkeley about search engines...
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The Google Blog: Two new improvements to Google results pages 3/24/2009 07:18:00 AM Today we're rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of...
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Eric Schmidt on the BBC: Some very interesting declarations about Google's vision of the perfect search....
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Street with a View: Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View. On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and...
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View Larger Map I suspect that like me, most everyone has used Google Street view to check up on all their various former addresses to see if the houses and/or neighborhoods have changed and if the view is intrusive...
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Frank Pasquale writes: Seven Reasons to Doubt Competition in the General Search Engine Market Posted by Frank Pasquale · March 18th, 2009 · No Comments New books on Google by Randall Stross, Alexander Halavais, and Jeff Jarvis have been getting...
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Here is an interview/debate I did last week on the BBC....
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NYTimes.com: March 11, 2009 Google to Offer Ads Based on Interests By MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO -- Google will begin showing ads on Wednesday to people based on their previous online activities in a form of advertising known as behavioral...
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Stephen Wolfram is an eccentric inventor, mathematician, and business person. His latest venture is in search. Check out how he describes his service: Wolfram's blog: Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming! March 5, 2009 Stephen Wolfram Some might say that Mathematica and A...
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BBC: Bangladesh imposes YouTube The video-sharing web site YouTube has been blocked by Bangladesh after a recording of a meeting between the PM and army officers was posted. The meeting took place two days after a mutiny by border guards...
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Computerworld: ... Google captured 16.6 percent of Chinese search engine users last year, up from 14.3 percent the year before, China's domain registry center said in a report dated Thursday. Google has struggled to raise its user share against Chinese...
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Bits Blog: Better Search Doesn't Mean Beating Google By Saul Hansell A headline that kicked around the blogosphere this weekend made no sense to me: "Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google." The post...
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Wired.com: Google Latitude to Cops: 'I Don't Remember' By Ryan Singel Google is promising that its new location-reporting service Latitude, which lets you broadcast where you are to your friends, will have a memory leak and won't remember anything. That's...
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I want to reveal the following relationships that might affect my readers' judgments about my opinions expressed the blog and in the book, The Googlization of Everything. 1) I have been paid by a major Google competitor, Microsoft, for articles...
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TechCrunch: Editor's note: The following is a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The views he expresses are his own, and we present them here to...
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