Stephen E. Arnold: Google Maps Errors, the Beginning of the End?

Finding Google Maps: Sundar Pichai, I Presume? The Google is not getting the respect it once assumed was its droit du seigneur. A recent example is this comment from “Google Maps’ Moat is Evaporating”: Read full post. Phi Beta Iota: The first six of the twelve Apostles of Web 3.0 have all agreed that we must …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Version 2 — Be Very Afraid

Google Version 2: The Calculating Predator is the public version of a series of reports prepared for clients in 2005 and 2007. The topics covered in the monograph, published by a now defunct publishing company, included an a review of Google’s database technology Bigtable which remains today the core data management system after more than …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Destroys a Business with Impunity. . .

Real Estate Firm Wants to Be Real Digital business listings can be just as lucrative as physical property holdings. The right domain name can sell for thousands and videogames sell digital objects and upgrades in micro transactions. When a digital holding that belongs to you, however, is “stolen” it can be difficult to reclaim it. …