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Follow up to WikiLeaks Releases Secret US Embassy Cables, news via Computerworld of a new search engine, CableSearch.org, lets users search the disclosed cables by word, source, security classification, classification tag and date. CableSearch was the brainstorm of Henk Van Ess, chairman of VVOJ (Vereniging van Onderzoeksjournalisten), or Association of Investigative Journalists, a Dutch-Flemish reporters’ …
FT.com: Facebooks grand plan for the future: “This is a somewhat different Mark Zuckerberg to the one the public knew just a year ago. In recent months he has transformed from an awkward wunderkind with a preternatural ability to anticipate where the web is going, into an amicable executive unafraid of laying out his grand …
Official Google New Blog: “News publishers and readers both benefit when journalists get proper credit for their work. That can be difficult, with news spreading so quickly and many websites syndicating articles to others. Thats why were experimenting with two new metatags for Google News: syndication-source and original-source. Each of these metatags addresses a different …
Hard-Coding Bias in Google “Algorithmic” Search Results, Benjamin Edelman – November 15, 2010 “I present categories of searches for which available evidence indicates Google has “hard-coded” its own links to appear at the top of algorithmic search results, and I offer a methodology for detecting certain kinds of tampering by comparing Google results for similar …
Drug Savings Tool Search for a drug you are taking Review your drugs price range and efficacy and compare it to Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs. Print out your options for discussion with your doctor. View more information about this group of drugs, including safety and effectiveness. [Consumer Reports Health Best Buy Drugs information contained …
“The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is the UKs independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.” Snipped from November 3, 2010 letter from ICO to Global Privacy Counsel, Google France: “My office now understands that GSV (Google Street View) cars driving …
Official Google Blog: “With Google Instant you get results as fast as you type, but your search doesnt stop there. Once you get results back, you choose a site to visit based on the information in each resultlike the title, a snippet of text and the URL. Over time weve made steady improvements to our …
“MyApartmentMap “is an apartment search engine that allows users to find apartment listings all over the United States…For the first time, apartment listings have been seamlessly integrated with interactive maps, virtual neighborhood tours, detailed rental data, and many other advanced tools that help apartment searchers make educated decisions about where to rent…MyApartmentMap provides detailed rental …
Google URL Shortener – All goo.gl URLs and click analytics are public and can be shared by anyone.
Google Confronts Chinas Three Warfares, by Timothy L. Thomas. Parameters, Summer 2010, Vol. 40, No. 2, U.S. Army War College. “In early January 2010, Google announced that a computer attack originating from China had penetrated its corporate infrastructure (in mid-December) and stolen information from its computers, most likely source code. The hackers also accessed the …
“Google Election Center helps you provide up-to-date election information to voters and create custom search tools for your website. You can submit the following kinds of information: Polling place locations; Registration instructions; Ballot information; State and local election office contact information. The Election Center Data Manager will guide you through the process of uploading and …
Official Google Blog: “Today were introducing Place Search, a new kind of local search result that organizes the worlds information around places. Weve clustered search results around specific locations so you can more easily make comparisons and decide where to go. Say youre looking for that great barbecue restaurant with live music…The new results are …
