No doubt you’ve seen this news item concerning a real estate magnate who has just got into the newspaper business: “It’s time for newspapers to stop giving away their stories to popular search engines such as Google, according to Samuel Zell, the real estate magnate whose bid for Tribune Co. was accepted this week“ The …

A friend of mine is a doctor. She’s very dismissive of the medial information on the internet. Not because some of it isn’t accurate, but because so much of it isn’t. Google are concerned about this, too: “How do I know if the information is trustworthy and reliable? There is a lot of material out …

Wonder if it’s any good? “Google’s approach, called statistical machine translation, differs from past efforts in that it forgoes language experts who program grammatical rules and dictionaries into computers.Instead, they feed documents humans have already translated into two languages and then rely on computers to discern patterns for future translations“. Google’s language translator tools can …

Rich Skrenta, the guy who founded DMOZ and Topix, has written an interesting piece: How To Beat Google. A lot of good points, although I do wonder about the level of resources and infrastructure required to compete with Google. That fast response time is really attractive. What would make you change from Google to a, …

A good overview of Google’s recent privacy policy announcement. In short:  ”Google’s adjustment was that instead of retaining user search data for “as long as it is useful,” now the company will keep the information for at least 18 months and no longer than 24 months. For ordinary Internet users, the most useful information out …

Now fixed. “Several flaws in the popular Google Desktop software could open PCs up to intruders and possible data theft, a security company has warned….It does not appear that anyone actually took advantage of the vulnerabilities and made attacks on Google Desktop users, both Watchfire and Google said…However, Google Desktop is still vulnerable to these …

Interesting articles on branding via search engines and overlooked link building opportunities, Thx Natasha “That Girl From Marketing” Robinson You can now open Word documents within Gmail Gevil reports interesting possible user profiling within Gmail, and not the kind you might expect A few CEOs from companies I’ve never head of declare Google “vulnerable”. Naturally, …