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“According to a recent report from Google, the company received 20,938 requests for user data in the first half of 2012, up from 18,257 requests in the second half of 2011. The United States accounted for 7,969 requests in the 2012 report. And of these requests, Google provided user data to the US government in …
Spiffing up your search results page search – “Youll notice a new simpler, cleaner design on the search results page weve been working on ways to create a consistent search experience across the wide variety of devices and screen sizes people use today. We started with tablets last year, got it to mobile phones …
Lee, Charles M.C., Ma, Paul and Wang, Charles C. Y., Identifying Peer Firms: Evidence from Edgar Search Traffic (November 5, 2012). Available at SSRN “Using internet traffic patterns at the SEC EDGAR website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact, traffic-based …
“Google Public Alerts is Googles new platform for disseminating emergency messages such as evacuation notices for hurricanes, and everyday alerts such as storm warnings. We aim to show relevant weather, public safety and earthquake alerts from the US National Weather Service, and the US Geological Survey (USGS) when you search on Google Search, Google Maps, …
Google Official Blog: “Every four years in the United States, people prepare to head to the polls and increasingly search for information about how to register to vote, where to vote and who is on their ballot. Even though it is 2012, important voting information is disorganized and hard to find on the Internet. To …
The New Librarian Librarians expertly engage in the following discipline, programs and projects: Intranet content development; Creation of expertise databases; Database development and maintenance; Taxonomy development and enterprise implementation; Legal project management; Search engine optimization (SEO); Business Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence; Planning, launching and maintaining Social Media applications; Portal knowledge services; ROI (for research, knowledge, …
Steven Levy: “Engineering prowess famously catapulted the 14-year-old search giant into its place as one of the worlds most successful, influential, and frighteningly powerful companies. Its constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information. Its equally complex ad-auction platform is a perpetual money-minting machine. But other, less well-known …
the Chronicle of Higher Education – Jennifer Howard: “Academic libraries indexing of digitized works counts as fair use. So says the federal judge overseeing a major copyright-infringement lawsuit brought last year by the Authors Guild against the HathiTrust digital repository and its university partners. At stake was the uses the libraries could make of millions …
News releases: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation. The agreement settles a copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Google on …
Google Analytics: “Over the past few years, weve seen massive improvements in digital marketing sophistication and capabilities. Today theres a rich suite of tools allowing marketers to gain better insights, reach audiences in new ways, and develop improved marketing campaigns so users have better web experiences. Yet many modern marketing toolslike web analytics, conversion tracking, …
“The presentation includes random notes and interesting quotes that illustrate not only how researchers are using social media but also how measurements of their social web impact relates to their personal brand and altmetrics. Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC’s Vice President, Research, and Chief Strategist, gave this presentation to staff at the University of Pittsburgh Library System …
“Through a Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Trade Commission, EPIC has obtained Google’s initial privacy assessment. The assessment was required by a settlement between Google and the FTC that followed from a 2010 complaint filed by EPIC over Google Buzz. The FTC has withheld from public disclosure information about the audit process, …
