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- The daily Google Zeitgeist
- On Monday, Google launched a new module for Google Trends called "Hot Trends" that analyzes queries done in the USA. The tool is updated several times daily so we can get a sense, albeit not real time, of what is happening right now on Google Search.Hot Trends, a list...
- Tags: Google Zeitgeist
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Can Google organize 'world's information'?
- The world’s leading search engine, and $142 billion market cap public corporation, Google, famously touts a vaunted mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible.”The inherent problem with unrealizable objectives is that they are unattainable. Google is a study in contradictions, as I underscore in “Google: The...
- Tags: Metrics, Google Software Applications, Privacy, Self-Promotion, Internet Data, Google, Media, Search, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
- Google Zeitgeist 2006
- Google Zeitgeist 2006hello...hello.......helloThere seems to be an echo in the first paragraph!What about Porn?I was under the impression that porn was the most searched thing on the net. I would be interested to see those statistics, see what they say about our society. That would make for interesting reading. Are...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Zeitgeist 2006, Google Zeitgeist
- Discussion threads 2006-12-19
- Google Zeitgeist 2006
- Its not yet available on the Google press page, but if you know where to look you can catch a glimpse before its made public. The 2006 Zeitgeist explores whats hot, current events, milestones, entertainment and sports.Whats Hot What roils our curiosity enough to ask basic questions? Between these...
- Tags: current event, curiosity, Google Zeitgeist, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Google Zeitgeist '05 available
- Here are some fun facts from Google, they have just released the 2005 Zeitgeist which gives us a nice overview of the year we have just endured.It turns out that looking at the aggregation of billions of search queries people type into Google reveals something about our curiosity, our thirst...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-12-20
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- Twitter: A fine 'pre-business' but un-monetizable and a deadly acquisition target
- Dear Google, Yahoo and any other potential buyer of Twitter. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay says it's a bad idea. A really bad idea. In a research note, Lindsay delivers an interesting history lesson of Internet "pre-businesses." You know the ones: The companies with large user bases, a...
- Tags: Monetization, Google Inc., Acquisition, Network, Twitter, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Interview with 'Us Now' collaboration film director
- I had the opportunity to attend a screening of the film 'Us Now', a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet last week at the Barbican Arts...
- Tags: Film, Ivo Gormley, Government, Collaboration, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Will the Microsoft Live Search turmoil ever end?
- Will the Microsoft Live Search turmoil ever end?At least the new guy ...... Qi Lu seems to believe that MS' core algorithms need to be top notch before the company can seriously take on Google. I hope MS gets its Powerset algorithms working at the heart of its search engine...
- Tags: Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-17
- News to know: SAP's mistake; Mozilla; Yahoo; CRM
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases to select testers updated IE 8 build CES: Zune phone, no. Pink, maybe Ryan Naraine: Window Snyder leaves Mozilla...
- Tags: Google Inc., Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Laptop Computer, CRM, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Linux, E-mail Providers, Strategy, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy
- Funny how the mind works. Sometimes it just makes associations whether you want it to or not. And now that I've read the feature article on Google's Marissa Mayer in San Francisco magazine, the images from that profile are etched into my mind whenever I think of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Image, Cat, Ray, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Google's parallel programming model
- Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day on commodity-based clusters. The latest statistics included in the paper are from September 2007. They show that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Programming Model, Programming, MapReduce, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- News to know: QuickTime Band-Aids; Opera; Hyper-V; AMD; iPhone@Work
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Apple slaps more bandaids on QuickTime David Berlind: Google/OpenSocial's director of engineering David Glazer unplugged: 'Shindig is live' Christopher Dawson: Another cheap mini-portable...competition rocks Larry Dignan: Opera files complaint against Microsoft in the EU...
- Tags: Google Inc., Opera Software, Apple QuickTime, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., BlackBerry Patent App, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Could the 'War of the Worlds' scare happen today?
- Could the 'War of the Worlds' scare happen today?Manipulating the massesThe 'war of the worlds is old ha't. The greatest scam of the modern age is "The War On Terror". Can I suggest "The Northwoods Project" as preliminary reading to watching "Zeitgeist", "Loose Change" and "9/11 Mysteries". Then ask yourself...
- Tags: scare, 9/11 commission
- Discussion threads 2007-10-31
- Google Rebang now live
- That mysterious entry in Googles robots.txt file "/rebang" is now live and ready to go. Its what we expected -- a sort of zeitgeist or "Billboard" for China. According to the help document, they hope to make this service available to other regions and languages in the future....
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- Google search PageRank excludes relevant Websites
- Matt Cutts, Google’s apparent external point man for the “search community,” has posted a Google 2007 weather forecast for Google’s all-powerful PageRank.Cutts’ “infrastructure status” public report at his “personal blog” begins with a bit of secretive panache:"I’ll briefly cover the things that I know are going on. The executive summary...
- Tags: Google Search, Web site, Google Inc., PageRank
- Blog posts 2007-01-13
- Google Q & A on Google Zeitgeist: Exclusive
- I juxtaposed Google Zeitgeist 2006 vs. Yahoo Buzz 2006 yesterday in “Google searchers vs. Yahoo searchers.” Digital Markets TalkBacker saran945@... underscored: “no words/phrases repeated in both search engines.” Why not? I touched base with leading search engine Google to find out and got an inside look at how the Google...
- Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- Google searchers vs. Yahoo searchers
- Google has zeitgeist, Yahoo has buzz.What piqued Google searchers’ interests in 2006,versus Yahoo searchers?Yahoo Top Ten Overall SearchesBritney Spears,WWE,Shakira,Jessica Simpson,Paris Hilton,American Idol,Beyonce Knowles,Chris Brown,Pamela Anderson,Lindsay Lohan.Google.com Top Searchesbebo,myspae,world cup,metacafe,radioblog,wikipedia,video,rebelde,mininova,wiki.Yahoo Top 10 News Story SearchesSteve Irwin death,Anna Nicole’s son dies,Iraq,Israel and Lebanon,U.S. elections,Fidel Castro stroke,North Korea nuke,JonBenet confession,Saddam Hussein trial,Danish cartoon.Google...
- Tags: searcher, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Podcasting, social networks, read/write Web, and video dominate Google's '06 Zeitgeist
- Per Googles 2006 Zeitgeist:"podcasting" was the 4th most popular Google News search of the year; "Bebo" and "MySpace" were the #1 and #2 most popular Web searches;"Metacafe" and "video" were the #4 and #7 most popular Web searches; "Wikipedia" and "wiki" were the #6 and #10 most popular Web searches;...
- Tags: SEARCH, Podcasts, Wiki, video, network, social networking, popular Web search, Internet search, Web, podcasting, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- This just in: Bill Gates won't give you a scoop
- This just in: Bill Gates won't give you a scoopNationalize Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationWould love for Mary Joe to rock our world with a simple question posed in print. Wouldn't it be great to nationalize the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation? I mean the US has a terrible debt...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- Business context search, a researcher's dream come true
- Ive been experimenting with search on a new level -- business ecology networking. And its proven an IT researchers dream.ZoomInfo has taken a new slice on search by giving its users not only a resume-like definition of individuals -- it gives a powerful definition of the bucket or buckets that...
- Tags: Podcasts, search, ZoomInfo
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
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