InsideGoogle points to this report about a group of academic publishers concerned about Google's plan to scan millions of library books into its Internet search engine index:The plan "appears to involve systematic infringement of copyright on a massive scale," wrote…
Author: Michael Zimmer
The Sociology of Interfaces
Korean and Finnish university researchers have conducted a new study into how cultural differences influence computer interface requirements, focusing on how Korean, Japanese, and Finnish people responded to different mobile data services and how those responses matched cultural aspects. The…
Analyzing the Google News Bias
Continuing the on-going discussion of bias at GoogleNews, TechDirt links to this study (an MA thesis) which aims to measure the source bias in GoogleNews.The study examines search results for evidence of bias. By analyzing the content of articles returned…
Wikipedia and Search
John Battelle points to a piece (reg required) by Max Kalehoff noting the striking increase in traffic driven to Wikipedia from search engine queries.A ranking of all Web sites based on the total volume of traffic received directly from search…
Google..Yawn…Launches..Yawn..Personalized Google
Of all the blog postings on Google's launch of a personalized home page, I think TechDirt is the only one grokked it correctly:Google.. Yawn... Launches.. Yawn.. Personalized Google At the media-only PR show today named the "Google Factory Tour" (to…
Search Engines Index 85% of Visible Web Content
From ISEDB.com:According to a recent study co-written by Ask Jeeves Director of Advanced Products Antonio Gulli and University of Iowa's Alessio Signorini, the major search engines have managed to index nearly 85% of the estimated 11.5 billion documents that make…
Planting My Search History Entries
It seems that Philipp Lenssen has figured out how to surreptitiously add searches to my Google Search History:If you have the Google My Search History activated, check if you find an entry today for the search query “Google Blogoscoped sneaked…
Tinkering Web Content – Greasemonkey
In this post on Google Autolink, Dan Gillmor mentions his support of "user-modifiable Web content once it's reached the user's computer." The basic argument here is that once a website's content is called by your browser and resides on your…
Dan Gillmor: Google’s Toolbar Keeps Invasive Autolink
Following up on the Google AutoLink debate, Dan Gillmor reacts to the latest version of the Google Toolbar:So Google has mostly ignored the criticism of its Autolink feature in the new Toolbar. eWeek reports some modifications from the original, but…
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Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
The growth of tagging (also referred to as social bookmarking or folksonomy) has received increased media attention recently. CNN claims tagging "could be our salvation as we attempt to sift through the growing clutter of data we're amassing on our…
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