Day one of the four day SES conference is wrapping up although a lot of the conference action takes place at restaurants and bars after hours. I think for most people the highlight of SES is the huge Google Party which will … Continue reading
Computer World says that Google may market an iPhonesque mobile device next year. I bet it’ll be great. I wrote an article over at the TechDirt Insight Community about this a few months ago (before the news from Computerworld – … Continue reading
Google Maps strikes again with enhanced mashupability. Google maps is clearly the leader in mapping which is curious because there are many other excellent mapping systems that are similar: Yahoo maps, MSN maps, Mapquest, and several more. Google, as usual, … Continue reading
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Google’s increasingly clever and bold initiatives to help people cope with virtual “paperwork” underscore their brilliancy in providing a simple and highly productive computing environment that is *not very dependent* on your own computer or your own computer skills. Google … Continue reading
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This is an excellent look from the NYT into the heart of the Googleplex and how they deal with the changing landscape of internet search and the amazing Google algorithm that ranks billions of web pages for relevance to billions … Continue reading
Here is a nice post from Google about their new policy to anonymize search info from users. Like many I have been critical in the past of Google and others for storing this information with little regard to who owns … Continue reading
One is torn between respect owed to Google for all they’ve done with search and frustration with their insufficient help/info for downranked sites. I know a small number of folks on the web spam team work to keep “collateral damage” … Continue reading
Viacom’s Google suit may actually go to trial, though I think everybody is just blowing smoke right now with Viacom looking for a nice payoff and Google looking to minimize the payoff to keep within the 400 million they allocated … Continue reading
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