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Stephen E. Arnold: Disappearance of Scientific Big Data — and a Solution

Scientific Data Going, Going, Gone Years ago I did a report for a sci-tech database publisher. I wrote up the results of a number of on site visits at research universities. I reported that there was no mechanism to preserve researchers’ data. The reason was pretty obvious: Research facilities at universities are less important than …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Microsoft Bing – Tits Up, No Milk + Microsoft @ PBI

Whither the Bing Thing in 2014? I found the data in the “2013 Bing Infographic” surprising. I continue to think of Bing as a search and retrieval system. I don’t use the system directly. I prefer to run queries on metasearch systems that use Bing as one source of content. The reason for my indirect …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Languages Supported by Google Translate Increase — But Not Farsi, Dari, or Pashto

Languages Supported by Google Translate Increase The article on eweek titled Google Translate Adds Support for More World Languages announces Google’s addition of nine languages to its service, making the total number 80 languages. These included several African languages spoken in Nigeria, Somalia and South Africa. There are motions in progress to add Mongolian, Nepali, …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Goldman Sachs Web Conference Leaves Out Search Vendors

Goldman Sachs Web Conference Leaves Out Search Vendors What tech companies does the financial sector think are on top right now? TechCrunch discussed invitees ahead of the recent Goldman Sachs Private Internet Company Conference in Las Vegas in, “Here Are the Hottest Companies in Tech Right Now, According to Goldman Sachs.” Reporter Colleen Taylor reproduces …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Free Pressures Fee Business Intelligence Bottom Feeders

Business Intelligence: Free Pressures For Fee Solutions I read “KB Crawl sort la tête de l’eau,” published by 01Business. The hook for the article is that KB Crawl, a company harvesting Internet content for business intelligence analyses, has emerged from bankruptcy. Good news for KB Crawl, whose parent company is reported to be KB Intelligence. …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Google Takes Possession Of and Gets Ready to Charge for Images

Google and Images for Email: A Different View, Very Different I have watched the comments about Google’s decision to cache images. A notable “this is what those guys are doing” appears in “Gmail Blows Up E-Mail Marketing by Caching All Images on Google Servers.” The focus is on the tracking function that e-mail marketers and …

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