The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Forking Google: The Future of Fone Flaps I read “Samsung Is Pulling Another Amazon on Android, But This Is Even Bigger.” I liked the write up. It acknowledges in a semi-nice way that Google is either smarter than everyone else or Google is less smart than everyone thinks. The idea is that open source Android …
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Seeing What Is in a Laundry List of Search Results In late October I will be delivering a webinar version of my lecture “What to Do When Google Doesn’t Answer Your Question.” The webinar is at this time not open to the public. My topic is that free Web search engines offer useful information. Most …
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Google Generates Calls for Businesses Google bumped up its advertising services for businesses by giving them the option to add a “click-to-call” service. Search Engine Watch reports that “Google: 70% Of Mobile Searchers Call A Business Directly From Search Results (Study).” A new Google/Ipsos research says the click-to-call option increases click-through rates and brand perception. …
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Google Forces Users to Join Google Plus Face it, when it comes to social networks Google+ is not everyone’s favorite. User adoptions have been less than hefty and Google is not happy. What does the search giant do? Force people to sign up. ReadWrite reports that if you “Want To Comment On YouTube? You’ll Need …
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The Blood Thirsty Geekery of Google Nobody imagines that geeks are mean. Why would a group consistently persecuted by others do so to their peers? As they say, put a bunch of hungry wolves in a locked room with a pig and see what happens is an apt metaphor for what Business Insider tells is …
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Are Google and Free an Oxymoron? I am working on my presentation for the upcoming ISS intelligence conference. One of the topics which I will be addressing is “What is possible and not possible with Google’s Index” Now don’t get the addled goose wrong. The goslings and I use Google and a number of other …
Google: A Losing Battle for Relevance I wrote a feature for Beyond Search which summarized the relevance problems for the query “ocr programs.” You can find that article at http://goo.gl/aBDjyI. The main point is that an average user would find links to crapware, flawed software, or irrelevant information. But Google was not the only offender. …
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