This Economist article on Google co-founder Larry Page has been getting a lot of attention due to its closing statements on Google's reported desire build a machine that will pass the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test"Turing test, and how Google wants to be…
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Transparency in GoogleNews
Following up on earlier concerns, Jeff Jarvis reports that GoogleNews is including news articles from the far-right British National Party. While I have previsouly disagreed with Jeff that certain "news" is inherently more valid than other "news" for inclusion in…
Bias in Google-AOL Deal; “Unethical,” says Microsoft
I'm late (due to end-of-semester grading) to the discussion of the recent Google-AOL deal. The key points:Google spends $1 billion to gain a 5% stake in AOL;Google offers special promotion and links to AOL (as sponsored links) for searches which…
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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…
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…
Google TrustRank
Google registered a trademark for the word "TrustRank," as Search Engine Watch and Google Blogoscoped discuss. I agree with the speculation that TrustRank sounds like a more social variant of the link-based PageRank algorithm Google relies on for search results.…
Google Q&A and the Limits of Knowledge
There has been much attention paid to Google's newest feature Google Q&A. Google Q&A (Google's response to features already provided by Yahoo & Ask Jeeves) delivers factual answers for some queries at the top of its results page, to save…
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…
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