Search Engine Journal reports that Google recently filed two patents dealing with ad targeting based on user search history behavior and personalization in what seems an attempt to leverage their Gmail/personal search/toolbar data, reminding us that all those free tools…
Category: Search Engines
Google Earth as Terrorist Tool?
Indian president Abdul Kalam has expressed concern over the potential use of satellite image and mapping software - such as Google Earth - by terrorists:At a meeting Saturday of top police officials in Hyderabad, Kalam said he worried that "developing…
Google Updates Privacy Policy
Google announced an update of their privacy policy: Google Privacy Policy (October 14, 2005)Google Privacy Policy (July 1, 2004) Aaron Swartz's useful web-based HTML Diff web-based program also offers a comparison of the old and the new and is available…
Google 2084
Randy Siegel in the New York Times speculates on what the Google homepage might look like in the far future (it allows you to search not only the web, but friends, family, ex-spouses, tax records, music, your future, and other…
Paper: The Value Implications of the “Google Paradigm” for Organizing, Distributing and Accessing Information
I am presenting this paper today at the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR). The panel is titled "Search Engines - Their Politics; Their Logics":The Value Implications of the “Google Paradigm” for Organizing, Distributing…
‘UnGoogleables’ Hide From Search
This Wired News article, 'UnGoogleables' Hide From Search, offers a profile of Geri Agalia (not her real name), a person who values her privacy and is trying to keep info about herself out of the Google database: Geri Agalia doesn't…
Yahoo’s Site Explorer
Yahoo has released Site Explorer, an online tool that lets you see all the pages that Yahoo has indexed on a particular site and all of its inbound links. This is the first time any search engine has offered this…
Push for the “Perfect Search”
There's been quite a push lately for what I'm calling the "perfect search" - a search engine that is personalized, local, implicit, predictive, etc. This is something I will be writing more about soon, especially whether there will be room…
Microsoft Plans to Sell Search Ads – Privacy Concerns?
Microsoft has announced that it plans to enter the search advertising market, creating their own advertising system to rival Google and Yahoo. Microsoft's "improvement" is to by allow advertisers to aim ads on its search pages to users based on…
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Google describes Googlebombing
Google's company blog has a post explaining Googlebombing: If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some…
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