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What if the search-index was run by a non-profit? GOOG founders once supported that idea

The recent debate about News Corp. threatening to leave the Google index, and Google’s problems in attempting to index out-of-print books are all related to its commercial status. It’s interesting to note that Google’s founders once believed that ...

From TOM FOREMSKI, ZDNet,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  News Corporation Limited,  Stanford University,  Sergey Brin

Tech Awards: Al Gore's a bore, "cash prizes" . . . and amazing laureates

Last night I attended the Tech Awards Gala, which celebrates technology benefiting humanity, with the award of five $50,000 “cash prizes.” Technology in the service of humanity seems a better description because all the 15 laureates chosen, ...

From TOM FOREMSKI, ZDNet,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Al Gore,  Applied Materials, Inc.

Rewarding tech that benefits humanity

The Tech Awards 2009 features a grand gala where five prizes of $50,000 each will be given to the best examples of technology used to benefit humanity. Also, Al Gore will recieve the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award. Dr. Joseph Adelegan, Cows ...

From TOM FOREMSKI, ZDNet,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Al Gore

Techmeme's 6 editors signals potential trouble with Google PageRank

Gabe Rivera, founder of Techmeme, a popular news aggregator, yesterday announced he had doubled the number of editors to 6 people. This is a very significant announcement because it shows that there is a problem in using search algorithms to discover ...

From TOM FOREMSKI, ZDNet,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  TechCrunch,  Larry Page,  Twitter Inc

Wow! Top execs say they are influenced by social networks

And the trend is growing. The influence on business decisions by online communities is at its highest in three years. Here are some key findings from this survey 365 business professionals: - Professional decision-making is becoming more social - ...

From TOM FOREMSKI, ZDNet,  18 Nov 2009

Tibco: What's next? - moving beyond real-time IT

Vivek Ranadive, CEO of Tibco Software is happy that there is a lot of talk about “real-time” these days, in terms of the web and IT systems. That’s because Tibco has been in the business of providing real-time IT technologies for a long time, for Wall ...

From TOM FOREMSKI, ZDNet,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Oracle

GOOG could lose more than Murdoch

The accepted wisdom is that if Rupert Murdoch and other newspapers block Google then they will suffer and die. But is that really true? These are some of the facts: - The value of Google search traffic to the newspapers is low. Its loss wouldn’t make ...

From TOM FOREMSKI, ZDNet,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Rupert Murdoch,  News Corporation Limited

Rupert Murdoch's Google taunts are a bid to unite publishers - content will be king

Why has Rupert Murdoch and others at News Corp. spent so much time criticizing Google when there is a simple solution: post a robot.txt file that tells Google and others not to search and index their content? Because criticizing Google results in a lot ...

From TOM FOREMSKI, ZDNet,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  News Corporation Limited,  Rupert Murdoch,  Yahoo!,  Microsoft Corporation

Public healthcare could spur Silicon Valley innovation and create jobs

I was looking at a survey of small businesses and whether they would cancel their healthcare plans if public healthcare were available. VerticalResponse, which offers surveys and email marketing services, polled 831 small US businesses about the effect ...

From TOM FOREMSKI, ZDNet,  13 Nov 2009

Rupert Murdoch and the dirty little secret about Google traffic...

Every time Rupert Murdoch complains about Google and says he will cut off access, a mass of Twitterati, Digerati, and Diggerati think the old man has lost his marbles and doesn’t “get it.” Surely, they chorus, all that traffic that Google sends to the ...

From TOM FOREMSKI, ZDNet,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Rupert Murdoch,  Wall Street Journal

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