Last week, Google tracked the Web sites I visited and, like most technology companies, tried to guess who I was based on the places I visited. Its goal: to target advertising to me. The result? The search engine thought I was a 70-year-old man based in Atlanta. Read full article > >
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Beware of privacy policies: Time to clean up your digital footprint
Last week, Google tracked the Web sites I visited and, like most technology companies, tried to guess who I was based on the places I visited. Its goal: to target advertising to me. The result? The search engine thought I was a 70-year-old man based in Atlanta. Read full article > >
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Beware of privacy policies: Time to clean up your digital footprint
Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers Wednesday about whether his company’s search engine stifles competition as he insisted it has not violated its famous “don’t be evil” motto. Schmidt, who had never testified on Capitol Hill, began his highly anticipated testimony by invoking the memory of Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who walked the same gantlet before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel during the 1990s. Read full article > >
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Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers Wednesday about whether his company’s search engine stifles competition as he insisted it has not violated its famous “don’t be evil” motto. Schmidt, who had never testified on Capitol Hill, began his highly anticipated testimony by invoking the memory of Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who walked the same gantlet before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel during the 1990s. Read full article > >
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Ashton Kutcher — the King of Twitter — has suddenly gone all coy over reports that his entourage is putting the final touches on a deal to have him replace Charlie Sheen on CBS’s “Two and a Half Men.” “I’m starting to become convinced that people put my name in articles just to improve their SEO [search engine optimization] or hoping I’ll tweet it,” Kutcher tweeted peevishly Thursday night. Poor baby! His reference is to published reports that he is in talks to take a role on the country’s most popular sitcom, which suddenly found itself one man short when Warner Bros., which produces the show, sacked Sheen back in March. The studio cited his erratic behavior and screeds against show creator Chuck Lorre. Read full article > >
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NEW YORK — Saying Google Inc. had overstretched, a federal judge on Tuesday rejected a deal between the giant search engine and lawyers for authors and publishers that would have let the company make money presiding over the world’s largest digital library.
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NYC judge rejects Google settlement with authors, publishers over firm’s huge digital library
Time for all those search engine experts to learn a new algorithm: Google announced Friday they had tweaked the way the search engine sifts through content so that “low-quality” content will not be featured so prominently. “It will provide better…
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The parent company of a search engine which accused Google of anti-competitive practices has issued fresh complaints.
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Glenn Beck thinks Google’s “in bed” with the U.S. government. So much so that you shouldn’t Google anymore. One wonders if Beck’s next venture will be a Beck-approved right-wing search engine. If Google is making you stupid, one can only dream what Beck’s search engine would do to your brain. You’d need a full New Yorker feature to get to the bottom of the damage, co-authored by Nicholas Carr and Chris Mooney, of course. Encouraging people to investigate hypothetical ties between the government and the media, Beck said: “May I recommend if you’re doing your own homework, don’t do a Google search. It seems to me that Google is pretty deeply in bed with the government.” His basis for this argument was instances of antagonism between Google and foreign countries. He may have been referring to China authorities who threatened to revoke the company’s license to operate there last year. Read the full story at The Hill .
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Glenn Beck: ‘Don’t Do a Google Search’
Corporate espionage in Silicon Valley: Google has accused Microsoft’s search engine Bing of copying its search results. On Tuesday, Google revealed a “sting” operation, in which it altered its search-results algorithm to see if Microsoft would do the…
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Will Qwiki dethrone Google? The search engine, which was founded by Doug Imbruce and AltaVista founder Dr. Louis Monier, will “deliver information in a format that’s quintessentially human-via storytelling instead of search,” according to the company’s…
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The search engine is trying to stop an online merchant from using tricks to get viewer hits.
Artist Jon Rafman’s cleverly-edited Google Streetview images get a New Museum group show Montreal-based artist Jon Rafman pores over thousands of Google Maps Streetview images, amassing the most intriguing assortment of real life literally captured on the road. Publishing a book in 2009, Rafman continues to explore how—like an admissible Peeping Tom—the Internet changes the public’s perception of personal space with his Tumblr blog Nine Eyes . A selection of photos from Nine Eyes is currently on view in the ” Free ” exhibition at NYC’s New Museum. A group show, “Free” explores the expanded shared space and how artists are interpreting this. “Although the Google search engine may be seen as benevolent, Google Street Views present a universe observed by the detached gaze of an indifferent Being,” writes Rafman in an essay explaining his project. “Its cameras witness but do not act in history. For all Google cares, the world could be absent of moral dimension.” The quality of the images captured by the roving fleet of Google’s vehicles vary in quality as do the reaction of the subjects captured. Some court the attention, others hide their faces. Google intentionally blurs the faces, but it’s a moot point—for our outdoor lives are on parade. ” Free ” is on view at the New Museum through 23 January 2011. See more images from Nine Eyes after the jump .
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Nine Eyes
Microsoft’s search engine begins showing users sites their Facebook friends like in an attempt to give people more personal search results.
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Bing deepens ties with Facebook
Google is keeping a check on censorship levels around the globe with a map showing which countries asked the search engine for user information.
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