Stephen E. Arnold: Google Needs Special Tools to Search for COVID-19 Literature — Never Mind That It is Busy CENSORING COVID-19 Literature?

Google: Regular Search Not Up to Covid19 Queries. Who Knew? Google has launched a new semantic search tool designed to help researchers fight this pandemic. The Google AI Blog reveals “An NLU-Powered Tool to Explore COVID-19 Scientific Literature.” As one might expect, researchers around the world have been turning out an enormous number of papers …

Stephen E. Arnold: Does Google Deindex with Impunity?

Deindexing: Does It Officially Exist? DarkCyber noted “LinkedIn Temporarily Deindexed from Google.” The rock solid, hard news service stated: LinkedIn found itself deindexed from Google search results on Wednesday, which may or may not have occurred due to an error on their part. The telltale sign of an entire domain being deindexed from Google is …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Is A Publisher — Laws That Apply to Publishers Now Apply to Google?

Google: Another Glitch Down Under DarkCyber spotted this story from ABC.net.au: ‘Publisher’ Google Ordered to Pay $40k in Damages for Defaming Melbourne Lawyer after Court Ruling. Aside from the money, the key point in the write up is the word “publisher.” I wrote Google: The Digital Gutenberg in 2008. The book is now out of …

Stephen E. Arnold: Zoom to the Oracle — Robert Steele: Zoom Under Attack by Google Dirty Tricks and Naked Short Selling?

Zoom to the Oracle One Dolphin Way is flipping with excitement. DarkCyber spotted “Oracle Wins Cloud Computing Deal with Zoom as Video Calls Surge.” From the truthy real news outfit DarkCyber learned: Zoom and Oracle did not disclose the size of the deal, but said traffic for “millions” of meeting participants is being handled by …

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Free Product Listings Challenge Amazon?

Google Free Product Listings: A Free-for-All The battle royale is one of the keys to Fortnite’s success. There will be one winner. Google, if the information in the article “In Major Shift, Google Shopping Opens Up to Free Product Listings” is accurate, has declared war on Amazon’s digital catalog of products. The Google-Amazon dust up …