At the Code/Mobile conference this month, Amit Singhal, Google’s search chief, announced that for the first time more Google searches were done this summer on…
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OPLIN 4cast #414: Image search research
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How many times have you had a library patron say, “I once read a really good book, it had a red cover with a bicycle…
On May 13, the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) in Luxembourg ruled that an individual can demand that Google remove certain search…
OPLIN 4cast #341: Heads or tails
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People who use Internet searches to place products in front of potential buyers pay a lot of attention to how the rest of us use…
OPLIN 4cast #340: Search engine privacy
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The recent revelation of the National Security Agency’s PRISM program, which the U.S. government has used to access people’s phone and Internet search data, has caused…
OPLIN 4cast #339: Smart(phone) websites
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Google has a lot of power to control which websites receive web traffic and which don’t, simply by altering the way they present search results.…
If you get really annoyed by people talking on their cellphones while they are in the library, then you are certainly going to love this…
OPLIN 4cast #333: Domains without dots
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Over a year ago, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that is responsible for coordinating Internet domain names and IP…
OPLIN 4cast #328: Inventive searching
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The search for better ways to search for information continues as the Internet “heavyweights” — Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. — increasingly find themselves in direct…