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- CARNEGIE MELLON PROJECT IMPROVES BOOK SEARCHABILITY.
- A Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist is enlisting the unwitting help of thousands, if not millions, of Web users each day to eliminate a technical bottleneck that has slowed efforts to transform books, newspapers and other printed materials into digitized text that is computer searchable. ...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Google buys digital security firm reCAPTCHA in digitised book push
- Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, a firm which protects websites from spam and fraud, in a move that promises to advance the search giant's controversial book scanning initiatives. 'CAPTCHAs' – distorted pictures of words or letters – appear frequently on websites...
- Articles 2009-09-16
- Life After Newspapers in the Digital City
- Boston Globe reporter Tania deLuzuriaga quotes a Portland, Maine, resident as asking, plaintively, "Can you even be a major city without a daily paper?" That's a question hanging over every city, small or large, in the U.S. these days. The Portland Press Herald has been struggling; advertising...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Tech Roundup: Drunken Email Regrets, MySQL Becomes TheirSQL, and More
- Someone keep me from clicking send -- For those addicted to working into the wee hours and complete exhaustion there's a new meaning to morning after regret. That's the feeling people get when they realize exactly what they sent in emails before they finally gave in to sleep. Google has...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Google Acquisition Will Help Correct Errors in Scanned Works
- One of the issues swirling around the Google Book Search GBS case is the relatively high rate of errors in the images of the millions of old books Google has scanned. Google's Engineering Director for GBS, Daniel Clancy, addressed this earlier this month...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
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- MessageLabs Intelligence: Spammers Defeat Google CAPTCHA Mechanisms
- MessageLabs, the leading provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for February 2008. Analysis of spam shows that 4.6 percent of all spam originates from Web mail-based services and the proportion of spam from Gmail increased two-fold from...
- Research articles 2008-03-06
- Google And Verizon Announce Sweeping Mobile Deal For Android
- Google and Verizon have announced a sweeping deal to cooperate around the development of services and devices that use the Android mobile OS maybe Chrome too on the Verizon network. What this actually turns out to mean in practice remains to be seen — sweeping and "groundbreaking" deals with limited...
- News items 2009-10-06
- Live Blogging: Sergey Brin & Eric Schmidt Talking Search With The Press
- Google cofounder Sergey Brin and Google CEO Eric Schmidt are speaking today to a small gathering of reporters at Google's New York office. Below, a semi-live blog of the briefing. Semi-live? Well, Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch, Peter Kafka of AllThingsD and I all eyed each other each other up. "You...
- News items 2009-10-07
- 9 Tasty Tips For Ecommerce SEOs
- Step right up fellow search marketers, and get your tasty tips for ecommerce right here! I have to admit, my favorite number is "9," so this list is already my favorite. The below tips are especially for search engine optimizers SEOs actively working in the ecommerce field. Hopefully you can...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Dissecting The AP & Murdoch Speeches Against Those Internet News Thieves
- Associated Press president Tom Curley and News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch both made speeches yesterday in China that are being widely reported as an attack on Google. Having read through the actual speeches, I was surprised they weren't as bad as I thought they'd be. Below, I've highlighted key portions...
- News items 2009-10-09
- Factual: Parting The Curtains Of The Invisible Web
- This year, we've seen several ambitious new efforts to mine and make searchable the vast part of the web that remains largely hidden to search engines—often referred to as the deep, hidden or invisible web. The latest foray into the reaches of hidden web is actually a hybrid, of sorts:...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Yahoo Pay Per Click Settlement Details Goes Out To Advertisers
- This morning, many Yahoo advertisers received an email from Rust Consulting letting them know, they are included in a legal settlement over Yahoo search ads. The settlement web site, which is at inreyahoosettlement.com explains that the "lawsuit alleges that customers contracted for targeted ad placements through two products, "Sponsored Search"...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Watch Those Rules & Regulations With European SEM Campaigns
- In my last column I addressed cultural differences within European countries. The main point was that Europe may be one continent, but you cannot treat every European the same way—there are many cultural differences among people in different countries, and in some cases, even within a single country. This is...
- News items 2009-10-13
- The State Of Search: Q3 Data From Efficient Fronter And SearchIgnite
- Two reports have come out almost simultaneously, from Efficient Frontier and SearchIgnite, offering insights into the US paid search market for Q3 2009. The two data sets are based on client search campaigns managed by both firms. The data are directionally consistent in most cases but slightly different in terms...
- News items 2009-10-13
- SEO FAQ That's Not From The Land Of Unicorns
- I guess Derek Powazek isn't done with attacking SEO. Now he's published an SEO FAQ page which, sorry, really doesn't provide much FAQ about SEO. So what the heck. I'll deconstruct it. Be sure to also read my previous post, An Open Letter To Derek Powazek On The Value Of...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Google Continues Crowdsourcing Its Map Data
- Google has announced a new tool called Google Building Maker that lets you make 3D buildings using aerial photos and 3D shapes. Google says early testers felt it was more toy-like than tool-like and suggests that teachers might use it to help teach geography. And at this point you might...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Battle Of The Augmented Reality Apps: Urbanspoon, Layar, Wikitude, WhereMark & More
- There seems to be an explosion of "real-time" search engines on the PC. The space is very new, still fairly open and in my opinion the tools and sites are not yet all that useful. Almost exactly the same can be said of "augmented reality" AR in mobile. From almost...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Wolfram iPhone App Improves Upon Site Experience
- There's a way in which the just-released iPhone version of Wolfram Alpha makes more sense than the web version. The web version suggests a Google-like general search engine, which it is not; it's a "computational" or "fact engine" with a more limited range of use cases. It does what it does well...
- News items 2009-10-19
- The "Four As" Offer Support For Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal
- One of the factors behind the US Justice Department's (DOJ's) objection to the now-defunct Google-Yahoo search ads deal, which was far less sweeping than the pending Yahoo-Bing/Microsoft deal, was the objection of the powerful advertising trade organization the Association of National Advertisers. Now, another advertising trade organization, the "4As," or...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Thoughts On Web Developers, SEO & Reputation Problems
- After last week's "Does SEO = Spam" debate erupted, I had a number of follow-up emails where I explained privately more about why SEO has such a bad reputation in some quarters, as well as what SEO is and isn't, from my perspective. I wanted to share some of that...
- News items 2009-10-19
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