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May 25, 2005
In the Meantime Others Move On...
So while Google is spending its time collecting data and innovating by creating a personalized portal (wow! why didnt anybody thing of this before) the world of search technologies moves on.
It is not the fisrt time that we mention this: Google is simply caching in on the brand name while in fact search engine optimization is so outspread and standard search engine technologies have improved so much as to cover the needs of the average search engine user so that Google is no more the necessity it was a few years ago. In fact the huge Google brand is holding techjnology back at the moment.
It is reassuring to see search engine evolution though. It must also be reassuring for the millions of businesses who are condemned to the impossibility of reaching an audience through the slow, expensive and unreliable processes of SEO for Google.
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May 23, 2005
The Next Google Move
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May 20, 2005
Click Fraud from the Inside
A very interesting report by Tim Yang on his communication with a click fraud 'company'. Worth every single sentence.
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May 13, 2005
See What You Are Missing?
A very cool tool (in Flash) by Dogpile on comparing the first page results of Google, Yahoo and Ask.
Their argument here being that by using Dogpile you aren't missing any of these results, but of course there is a bias here both due to the fact that you compare 10 results of each of the engines with 30 results from Dogpile, and due to the fact that most of these sites these days will have the information one needs (or the products one wants).
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May 08, 2005
Where is Google Web Accelerator?
It seems as if the Google Web Accelerator pages have been removed today... Does that mean that Google accepts this as a major publicity **** up?
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May 06, 2005
Spyware, Adware and Googleware
Web Accelarator, the latest addition in the Google world of software does not realy come as a surprise. It is just another brick in the wall of data collection that Google is investing heavily upon over the past few years. This is not funny any more guys. Using your brand name to become the same as the Gator/Claria guys, share personal information and browsing patterns - without the real consent or knowledge of the public - with who knows which govermental - or not - agency and treating people like ignorant cattle who would trust you on anything is just not funny or exciting anymore. It is just such a massive Hypocrisy to still claim that you are 'the good guys'.
Hm... I wonder if my Lavasoft Adaware will remove the Google accelerator...
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Friday Fun: Time Travellers Convention
Technically you need just one Time Travellers Convention ;)
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May 05, 2005
Enter The Google Accelerator.
Google labs launched yesterday a beta of their Web Accelerator software that aims to allegedly speed up internet access by passing traffic through the Google servers which act like a proxy by storing copies of sites frequently accessed by individual PCs and automatically retrieves new data from those pages, so that a Web browser needs to process only updates to those sites when asked to load them. Google said the tool will not work on some pages, such as encrypted sites managed by financial services companies, and is not designed to speed downloads of multimedia files.
Thionking about your privacy on this? In an attempt to quell potential privacy concerns related to storing Internet usage data, Google said that Web Accelerator receives much of the same kind of information people already share with their Internet service providers (ISPs) when surfing the Web.
The Google representative said that the company has gone to great lengths to ensure that the tool does not broadcast information that could lead to some form of online attack. In addition to avoiding encrypted sites, the representative said, Web Accelerator can be set not to pre-fetch data from sites, can have its history of downloaded sites cleared in moments, and is easy to disable altogether.
Do you sense that this is a Google browser precursor?
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May 04, 2005
New Google news? (and the big will become bigger).
I have read a few articles recently over the New Scientist article that talks about a new way of ranking Google news so that sources with more 'authority' can come out on top.
Frankly, I usually go to Google news because I am actually looking for the small independent media that can say reveal and criticize more than the big ones. A new algorithm that would place the brand names on the top will really not be classified as something marvellous for me (if I wanted to see what CNN has to say about Iraq I would go to the CNN site and wouldnt go to Google news).
Finding ways in which the big guys become bigger and the small guys smaller is no real good news to me. As it is not so good news to hear of possible 'manipulations' to the search engine results pages. Whatever these may serve...
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