Something I have long warned about appears to be happening. The Mercury News reports:Bush Lawyers Ask Judge To Make Google Hand Over Data; Google Promises A Fight The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc.…
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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…
The MIT Advertising Lab reports on how companies are realizing that online satellite imaging and mapping systems are untapped advertising opportunities. One new strategy is to make your brand viewable from geosynchronous orbit. [via BoingBoing]
The New York Times finally picks up on this discussion about how some governments are concerned over the detailed images of sensitive sites Google Earth makes available to the public.
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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Google announced that they are increasing the font size of the AdWords paid search results becuase "The more similar the type, the higher the CTR [click through rate]." You can view the difference: before vs. after. By making the paid…
Prompted in part by the recenet story about how your search history could be used as evidence against you in court, Robert Kuttner has a scathing op-ed in the Boston Globe regarding Google and individual privacy rights titled "Google Search…
I'm attending the "Regulating Search?" symposium hosted by the Yale Information Society Project today. The first panel was on "The Search Space," and Robin Sloan, co-producer of the (in)famous "EPIC 2014" movie on "the future history of media," posed an…
Google recently released an enhancement to their AdWords paid search results called "Click-to-Call." When you click the phone icon on an AdWords ad, you enter your phone number and Google calls the number you provided. When you pick up, you…
Siva Vaidhyanathan's article on the Google Library project in the Chronicle of Higher Education is well worth a read: "A Risky Gamble with Google" I have to confess, I am thrilled and dazzled by the potential of such a machine…
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