[via Siva Vaidhyanathan] Daniel Brandt at Google-Watch used the Freedom of Information act to compel the University of Michigan to reveal its previously secret contract with Google to allow Google to digitize its library. Here's his take on it:This agreement…
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SiliconValleyWatcher reports that Google plans to map the city of San Francisco in 3D using a fleet of laser-equipped trucks:Google plans to use trucks equipped with lasers and digital photographic equipment to create a realistic 3D online version of San…
Siva Vaidhyanathan is working on a paper/talk about the social implications of Google's plan to digitize library books, and asks for feedback. The broadest issue is the widespread acceptance of the "Google paradigm" for organizing, distributing and accessing information. Google…
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…
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…
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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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…
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.…
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…
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…
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