The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Enterprise Search: Not Exactly Crazy but Close Why Search Sucks: The MVP Approach Maybe? PBI: A Presidentially-mandated Open Source Agency (OSA) will fix all of the problems imposed by the corrupt political-financial system known as Griftopia.
Google: Making Friends Everywhere Would it surprise anyone if Google alters search results to favor itself? Nope! Reuters explains that Europe is once again fed up with Google’s shenanigans, so “Axel Springer Unit, Others Say Google Still Playing Unfairly, Want EU To Act.” Axel Springer owns the shopping comparison Web site Idealo and it has …
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A Call for Openness in Search “Opening Up Search Is an Ethical Imperative” presents an argument for opening up search. “Opening up” appears to mean that Google’s grip on ad supported search and retrieval is broken. The write up states: LONG POST EVERY WORD WORTH READING Advertisers go where the eyeballs are. Money can alter …
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The Key to Millions: Enterprise Search? Our research prior to the publication of the three volumes of the Enterprise Search Report I wrote and our subsequent work on next generation search solutions revealed these problems:
Smart Software but No Mention of Cathy O’Neil Phi Beta Iota: “Smart” software is not smart. It is biased, dangerous, and stupid. Not only does search profer what someone has paid for you to see, and then only from the 1% of the knowledge that is online, but software that “grades” human tests is a …
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Books and Learning: Go Mobile, Stay Clueless I read “The Books of College Libraries Are Turning into Wallpaper.” The main idea is that today’s students are not using libraries to locate books which are then read, thought about, and analyzed in order to: Learn Find useful facts Exploit serendipity Figure out which source or sources …
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