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Regulators are Watching Google Over Antitrust Concerns: “When it comes to government scrutiny, the companys executives challenge the premise that Google is a monopoly, even as the companys share of the search market inexorably rises, arguing that Google is still a minor player in the overall advertising market, which totals $800 billion a year…They are …
“TV meets web. Web meets TV. Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet. Watch an overview video below, sign up for updates, and learn more about how to develop for Google TV.” Via YouTube, Introducing Google TV, …
“Consumer Watchdog today formally launched its new Website, Inside Google, to focus attention on the companys activities and hold Google accountable for its actions. The nonpartisan, nonprofit public interest group is launching Inside Google to educate the public and opinion leaders about Googles dangerous dominance over the Internet, computing and consumers online lives. Inside Googles …
Official Google Blog: “Weve added contextually relevant, left-hand navigation to the page. This new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query. Over the past three years, we’ve launched Universal Search, the Search Options panel and Google Squared, and its those three technologies that power the left-hand panel. Universal Search …
“The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive has completed its third annual analysis of link rot among the original URLs for law- and policy-related materials published to the Web and archived though the Chesapeake Project. The Chesapeake Project was launched in 2007 by the Georgetown University Law Library and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and …
The Fate of the Semantic Web, by Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie, May 4, 2010 “Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has worked along with many others in the internet community for more than a decade to achieve his next big dream: the semantic web. His vision is a web that allows …
Gutenberg 2.0 Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change, by Jonathan Shaw, Harvard Magazine, May-June 2010 “Who has the most scientific knowledge of large-scale organization, collection, and access to information? Librarians, says [Peter Bol, Carswell professor of East Asian languages and civilizations]. A librarian can take a book, put it somewhere, and then guarantee to find …
Greenleaf G., The Global development of free access to legal information, in European Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2010. “Since the mid1990s the Internet’s Worldwide Web has provided the necessary technical platform to enable free access to computerised legal information. Prior to the web there were many online legal information systems …
Official Google Blog: “…it’s no surprise that Google, like other technology and telecommunications companies, regularly receives demands from government agencies to remove content from our services. Of course many of these requests are entirely legitimate, such as requests for the removal of child pornography. We also regularly receive requests from law enforcement agencies to hand …
Official Google Blog: “Since we first introduced real-time search last December, weve added content from MySpace, Facebook and Buzz, expanded to 40 languages and added a top links feature to help you find the most relevant content shared on updates services like Twitter. Today, were introducing a new feature to help you search and explore …
Firefox now has about 30% of the browser market on average, with its strongest market in Europe, at 39% according to the Mozilla Metrics Report Q1 2010 Firefox Worldwide Market Share report.
YouTube Blog: “…we’re in the midst of one of the largest redesigns in YouTube’s history: we’re simplifying the look and functionality of the video page. That’s the page you see whenever a video plays, and this redesign is about going “back to basics,” focusing attention on the reason why you came to YouTube in the …
