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…
Category: Search Engines
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…
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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Creating a Google-Free Zone
Inside Google provides this report on a growing anti-Google campaign by Dr. Karl-Friedich Lenz, professor at Aoyaman Gakuin University in Tokyo:Citing major reservations about Google related to Autolink and Web Accelerator, Dr. Lenz recently posted a statement, that said in…
NYT on Grokker
Today's New York Times article "Your Internet Search Results, in the Round" features Grokker, the graphical search engine interface that presents results in a spatial map.Currently, the major search engines have all limited displays to ranked lists of sites. The…
Google Web Accelerator Privacy Problem Confirmed
Brad Hill reports that Google has reportedly confirmed the privacy concern that GWA enables the displaying of private pages that were cached by another GWA user. This might also better explain why Google has stopped allowing users to download GWA.…
Google Web Accelerator Closed
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google has shut down the download page of their new Web Accelerator, explaining “We have currently reached our maximum capacity of users and are actively working to increase the number of users we can support.” Philipp…
Google Web Accelerator: More (Scary) Problems
Some very scary unintended consequences of using Google Web Accelerator have emerged:GWA's reliance on caching is already showing serious privacy issues, noteably the caching of private login info. People are finding themselves logged in as someone else on pages that…
Google Web Accelerator: Google’s Private Web?
Nathan Weinberg at InsideGoogle (a great blog I recently discovered) adds to the growing concerns with GWA, realizing that Google is essentially privatizing the Web through their vast cache of sites:Google has essentially decided to make "an extra copy" of…
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