The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Google Search, AdSense, and Other Pressures I read “Google Is Enraged By A Fake Conspiracy Theory That It Is Stealing Money From Publishers.” My initial reaction was, “Google seems to have a low threshold for pain.” I continue to hear and read that the shift from desktop Web surfing to whiz bang mobile devices is …
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Google Gets Political It’s not often in this day and age that a Fortune 500 company rattles any political cages. In most cases, companies keep their noses out of Washington, or at least disguise their motives behind lobbyists. However, Google seems to be making some striking political waves, as we discovered in a recent NBC …
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Glass: Looking through the Obvious I read “How Google Screwed Up Google Glass.” The capitalist tool does not have its heart in the analysis. Here’s the tip off: “It really is a great idea.” What exactly is great about a virtual reality headset? As I wrote in Information Today, I have two or three devices …
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Open Source Search: Just Like Good Old Proprietary Search The more search changes, the more it remains the same it seems. Come to think of it: Most of today’s vendors are following the scripts written for Fulcrum Technologies and Verity who stomped around the C suite in the 1980s. Is the search sector running an …
PART I Imagine the Internet without Search Engines Centrifuge Systems proposes an interesting idea in “Big Data Discovery Without Link Analysis Is Like The Web Without Google.” Centrifuge Systems asks readers of the short article to imagine using the Internet without a search engine. How would we locate information? It would be similar to the …
Google Is as Intrusive as They Come If you see the world through Google (www.google.com) colored glasses, you might think the search king can do no wrong, such as in this recent Medium.com article, “Why the Future Belongs to Google.” https://medium.com/mobile-culture/994daa5d0fee However, it’s starting to look like even those wearing the glasses are not happy. …
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Phi Beta Iota has learned that the publisher of The Google Trilogy has gone out of business and their website is no longer offering The Google Trilogy, one of the most important — and still one of the most relevant — intellectual exploration into Google, the 900 lb gorilla in Internet Stage 1 (Connecting People …
