Showing posts with label search engines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label search engines. Show all posts
29 September 2012

Rupert Murdoch Admits Defeat: Now Wants London Times To Appear In Search Results

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Remember back in 2009, when Techdirt reported that Rupert Murdoch hated Google so much he had decided to block the search engine from in...
28 July 2011

Not So Fast, FAST

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FAST - "Federation Against Software Theft" - is manifestly one of the more risible copyright organisations, since it doesn't e...
04 June 2010

Please Help Fight EU Search Engine Surveillance

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Just the other day I wrote about the foolishness that was the Gallo Report – which, alas, seems to have gone through with all its excesses. ...
03 August 2009

Wolfram Alpha Does Not Understand Copyright

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Remember Wolfram Alpha? That super-duper search engine - sorry, "computational knowledge engine" - that was going to change the w...
02 July 2008

Google Is Evil in a Flash

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On Open Enterprise blog .
25 June 2008

Searching for the Truth About Search Engines

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It has been clear since the mid 1990s that search engines are central to the Internet and its use. The rise of Google as the bellewether Ne...
14 January 2008

Mark My Words

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On Open Enterprise blog .
11 January 2008

Tweedledee, Meet Tweedledum

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I've noted before that Microsoft and Elsevier are, well, shall we say, kindred spirits. As Peter Suber observes , they're going to...
12 December 2007

Googling Eclipse

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On Open Enterprise blog .
05 December 2007

A Real Carrot to Use Open Source

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This was new to me: Carrot2 is an Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine. It can automatically organize (cluster) search results into...
23 November 2007

Public Domain Search

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One of the big advantages of open content is that there are no problems with indexing it - unlike proprietary stuff, where owners can get un...
19 November 2007

Google Desperately Seeking Picasa

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What on earth took them so long? Finally, Google has integrated Picasa Web Albums into Google Image Search. Public albums can be enabled for...
18 September 2007

New York Times Sees the Light and Opens Up

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The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night. The move comes two years to ...
04 September 2007

Chinese Whispers

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Here's another billion reasons why DRM'd music downloads will die out - and why copyright law will need to be rewritten: Like milli...
02 July 2007

Reputation Management in the Age of Google

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Here's one good reason why you might want to blog: At the height of the cyber-abuse, Sue Scheff, a consultant to parents of troubled te...
22 June 2007

Funny Old Business.com

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This is just a test to see if anyone's awake, right? Entrepreneurs Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton were widely mocked for lavishing $7.5 m...
20 June 2007

The Eyes Have It

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I'm not a great user of Baidu , for geographical and linguistic reasons. But this eye-tracking analysis that compares Baidu with Googl...
14 April 2007

Google + DoubleClick = GoogleClick

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One consequence of Google's rather expensive acquisition of DoubleClick is that it turns the company from a search engine that sells ad...
12 April 2007

Searching for an Answer

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It was the arrival of the first-generation search engines like Yahoo and Lycos in the mid-1990s that turned a collection of disparate online...
17 July 2006

If Not Net Neutrality - What?

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That old contrarian curmudgeon, Andrew Orlowski, has found a soul-mate in Richard Bennett : "[t]he veteran engineer played a role in th...