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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Google Web Accelerator: Pros & Cons
Google Labs released Google Web Accelerator (GWA) today, software you download to your computer which utilizes Google servers as a proxy for web content, delivering the pages to your system more rapidly and making your browsing experience more efficient. From…
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’s My Search History
Google has released a beta version My Search History to enable you to “find information you thought you lost.” After you login using your Google Account (e.g., your Gmail login), a search history link will be added to the upper…
The Power of Google AutoLink
Following up on the Google AutoLink debate, I came across this post by Internet protocol expert Scott Granneman. Scott's main complaint with AutoLink is that user's have little or no control over the ways in which AutoLink directs web traffic…
Blurring of Search Results and Ads
One of the things Google brags about with its Adsense and Adwords programs is the high relevancy of the ads placed alongside its search results. Their logic is that the more relevant the ads are to the search, the less…
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…
Google Current
[via John Battelle]In an interesting blend of Google's ubiquity as a place people look for information and cable news as a place to see what the nation finds interesting at that particular moment, Al Gore's new Current TV cable channel…
Google adds a (dangerous) Firefox tune-up
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…
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…
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