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A New Tool For .s. Intelligence: Google?
Traditionally, intelligence agencies have relied on top-secret information to track changes in other countries. But wiretaps and secret intercepts didn't help...
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Big Data to Drive a Surveillance Society
As real-time and batch analytics evolve using big data processing engines such as Hadoop, corporations will be able to track our activities, habits, and locations...
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Academics to 'embrace Wikipedia'
Students and academics at a world-leading London university want to build bridges between the Wikipedia website and formal research.
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Browser Wars: Mozilla's Firefox Challenges Microsoft's IE, Google's Chrome
The Internet browser wars are back. Mozilla released its long-awaited Firefox 4 browser Tuesday, a critical moment for the upstart that first challenged mighty...
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Social Games, Virtual Goods
The popularity of virtual goods and currencies in online gaming is changing how people think and act about money.
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The Quest For Randomness
It's not easy to generate a string of numbers that lack any pattern or rule, or even to define exactly what randomness means.
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Google
In early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex here embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. Their mission was to devise something far more important...
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Search Undergoing Biggest Disruption Since the Dawn of Google
Facing criticism over the quality of search results, Google recently tweaked its famously secretive algorithm to weed out spam sites and so-called "content farms...
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Ex-Googlers Penetrating Silicon Valley Startup Hierarchy
It may be too soon to equate the "Xooglers," as members of the ever-expanding network of ex-Google employees call themselves, with the "PayPal Mafia"—the founders...
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The 'Panda' That Hates Farms: A Q&A With Google
Google's new update to its search engine addressed the growing complaint that low-quality content sites (derisively referred to as content farms) were ranked higher...
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Web's Hot New Commodity: Privacy
As the surreptitious tracking of Internet users becomes more aggressive and widespread, tiny start-ups and technology giants alike are pushing a new product:...
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The Winners and Losers from Google's Search Change
Google's major revamp of its search rankings last week created a new set of winners and losers, but some critics of the company say the changes are not being...
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Google nofficially Declares War on Content Farms
Search behemoth Google says it's taking a stab at raising the bar on search results by penalizing Websites that offer copycat content and sites that are clearly...
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Twitter as Medium and Message
Researchers are mining Twitter's vast flow of data to measure public sentiment, follow political activity, and detect earthquakes and flu outbreaks.
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A World Wide Web that Talks
Some 10,000 people worldwide use a version of the Web like no other: it is operated by voice over the telephone. Called the "Spoken Web," it is the result of...
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Google Is 'very Proud' of Ghonim, Ceo Says
Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the company was "very proud" of employee Wael Ghonim, a leader in the antigovernment protests that toppled Egyptian...
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Facebook Officials Keep Quiet on Its Role in Revolts
With Facebook playing a starring role in the revolts that toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, you might think the company’s top executives would use this...
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The Dirty Little Secrets of Search
Pretend for a moment that you are Google’s search engine. Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter. What will be the very first result?
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Web Words That Lure the Readers
The Huffington Post has hired veteran journalists to beef up its news coverage. But a significant chunk of its readers come instead for articles like one published...
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