Stephen E. Arnold: Google Corruption Goes Vertical — Google Search Integrity Score Now at 15% and Dropping

Organic Results on Google a Shrinking Commodity Posted: 09 Aug 2013 07:52 PM PDT The free ride is over. Google seems to have decided it is time to make the most of AdWords, the Tutorspree Blog illustrates in, “How Google is Killing Organic Search.” The post begins by praising the Google of the past which, …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Bribes AdBlock To Not Be Blocked….

Google Pays AdBlock Enough Said Posted: 11 Aug 2013 04:59 PM PDT Pulling from the German Web site Horizont comes an interesting insight into Google’s dealings with AdBlock: “Google Is Funding AdBlock Plus.” AdBlock is a plugin users can download to block ads on their Internet browsers, but it still allows ads through that it …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Glass: Are Weaponized Nanodevices and Ultra-Miniaturization Coming?

Google Glass: Are Weaponized Nanodevices and Ultra-Miniaturization Coming? Google’s earnings for the April, May, June 2013 quarter reminded me that Google faces some challenges. Expenses moved up a couple of billion from the same quarter in 2012. (Source). More troubling, Business Insider said, “The total number of paid clicks that Google gets continues to go …

Stephen E. Arnold: DuckDuckGo Clobbering Google Goose – Robert Steele Comments

The Duck Is Gaining Over the Google Goose July 5, 2013 Remember the old child game “duck duck goose?” It is now time to play “duck duck Google” with the top search engine chasing DuckDuckGo around in a circle. The privacy-based search engine may still end up being in the metaphorical pot, but Search Engine …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Growth, Search, & Costs — the Google Killer?

Amazon: Unrelenting Growth, Search, and Costs I noted the Netcraft data which were presented in “Amazon Web Services’ Growth Unrelenting.” Amazon is a sprawling online services company. The firm hit on the idea of becoming a cloud provider years ago. The write up presents a diagram which uses a log scale (check with an attorney …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google as (Manipulative) Fact Deliverer

Google as a Fact Deliverer Posted: 31 May 2013 06:17 AM PDT I read “Google Adds Nutrition Info for over 1,000 Foods to Search Results.” According to the write up, “Google is incorporating nutrition data into search; beginning today, results will include “extensive” details on calories, carbohydrates, proteins, sugars, and other relevant food info.” How …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Implants — You Will Buy What We Are Paid to Tell You to Buy….

Google Implants By 2030? From Marketplace Tech comes an interesting article on Google Glass and the projections into the future in regards to similar projects. The article, “Google’s Ray Kurzweil on the Computers that will Live in our Brains,” discusses how everything Google puts its hands on is changing how we search, retrieve and interact …