Google has announced advanced searching with Firefox:Now Google's faster than ever on Firefox and Mozilla browsers. When you do a search on these browsers, we instruct them to download your top search result in advance, so if you click on…
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Problems of Personalized Search
Google Blogoscoped has an interesting post on the potential problems of personalized search, including (a) as users change their behavior, relying on prior behavior becomes less accurate, (b) users don't like to login, (c) users don't always want localized searches,…
More on GoogleNews: Sources, Bias, Purpose
The concern over content selection at GoogleNews continues on Buzzmachine. I've had various reactions, which can be found throughout the comment threads, and in my earlier post on transparency. Allow me to highlight three more issues:SourcesThis issue first arose when…
German Greens Worry About Google
[via Google Blogoscoped]The German green party, Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen, is worrying about search engine monopolies and a lack of transparency (and a long-lived cookie) in Google. The green party is currently ruling this country in a coalition with the…
Demanding Transparency in GoogleNews
Jeff Jarvis recently demanded more transparency in GoogleNews:We're demanding transparency of mainstream news.Well, it's high time we get transparency from GoogleNews.Instapundit and LGF point to a nazi site -- complete with "love your race" graphics -- that is part of…
Mind-Mapping and Spatial Information Navigation
Today's New York Times includes a story on mind-mapping software, "To-Do List: Shop, Pay Bills, Organize Brain." It suggests that to learn new topics, organize ideas and spur creative thinking, people should draw dynamic and unstructured "mind maps" rather than…
French News Agency Sues Google News
French news agency Agence France Presse has sued Google, alleging the Web search leader includes AFP's photos, news headlines and stories on its news site without permission (read AFP's copyright notice here). The French news service is seeking damages of…
Wired: Search Rank Easy to Manipulate
Wired Magazine reports on how search engine optimization expert Greg Boser manipulates search engine results. He complicates Google's claim that PageRank "relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of…
Harvard-Google Project Faces Copyright Woes
This Harvard Crimson article discusses concerns that the Google Print lirary project to digitize books at Harvard's libraries (among others) may infringe copyright law. The debate is whether Google's digitization efforts fall within "fair use" or are "illegal duplication" (note…
Eye-Tracking Study of Google Results Page
[from The Unofficial Google Weblog]Two search marketing companies and an eye-tracking firm called Eyetools have produced one of the most interesting studies of consumer response to a Google results page. By tracking eye movements, a picture emerges of the hot…
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