Siva also points to this Chronicle of Higher Education interview with Michael Gorman, president-elect of the American Library Association, a critic of Google's library project. The summary:Mr. Gorman, who is dean of library services at California State University at Fresno,…
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Siva Vaidhyanathan is working on a paper/talk about the social implications of Google's plan to digitize library books, and asks for feedback. The broadest issue is the widespread acceptance of the "Google paradigm" for organizing, distributing and accessing information. Google…
Philipp Lenssen uncovers Shmoogle, "the first non-deterministic search engine" that presents Google results in random order. From its creator, Tsila Hassine:What is Shmoogle? Shmoogle is a Google randomiser. When you type your query into Shmoogle, you get Google's results but....…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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