Archive for January 26th, 2009

Read me first: Google should learn the difference between real sex and spam (Guardian Unlimited)

Real sex is difficult for the Googlebot. If humans argue so much about distinguishing between erotica and pornography, imagine the difficulty search algorithms have with the topic. Two years ago, an admitted bug in a change to Google's ranking algorithm caused many respected and popular sexuality-related sites to suddenly lose their rank in search results . The bug was soon fixed, but not ...

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Google and the Great Wikipedia Feedback Loop (The Register)

The information triumvirate monolith Google's Wikidependence is worse than ever. And Jorge Cauz thinks it's time for an intervention.…

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Google promotes Knol in Dummies.com deal (Infomatics)

Google has joined forces with Dummies.com , a publisher of how-to guides, in an effort to encourage users to contribute to its Knol project. Knol was launched in July 2008, and is Google's version of Wikipedia.

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Google Earth plagued by art project (The Inquirer)

Nick Farrell the inquirer Nibble Staged events

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Google promotes Knol in Dummies.com deal (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

Google has joined forces with Dummies.com, a publisher of how-to guides, in an effort to encourage users to contribute to its Knol project.

Monday, January 26th, 2009