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Source : Article du blog Gigaom, does the world need another way to search ?

Google’s dominance in online search hasn’t stopped hundreds of startups from trying to build a better mousetrap. Each is trying a new twist on search: geography, crowdsourcing, tags, user annotations, learned hierarchies and timelines. With $20 billion spent on online advertising every year, a killer search application can make a lot of money.But will new types of search catch on?

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Source : Article de Publishing 2.0

After I asserted several times that data is the key to the future of the web, Umair Haque gave my head a good spin by asserting that data is in fact a commodity. Umair is half right — we are increasingly overrun by data, and SOME of it is a commodity. The commodity data is precisely what Google has harnessed, which makes Google so powerful — the data on the open web.

Google has perfected

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Source : Master Plan The Movie
Petite vidéo bien faite sur Google et ses dangers.

Source : Article sur le blog Search Engine Feng Shui

Google fêtait le 1er janvier dernier les 25 ans du protocole TCP/IP, protocole de base de l’ensemble des communications numériques qui régissent Internet aujourd’hui. C’était l’occasion d’un logo spécial, une tradition à laquelle Google nous a habitués depuis quelques années :

Et comme à l’accoutumée, ce logo évènementiel était lié à une requête particulière destinée à éclairer les internautes sur l’évènement en question : January 1 TCP/IP. Une mise en avant bien anodine, si elle n’avait permis d’éclairer les dérives potentielles de la recherche universelle.

Depuis le printemps dernier, Google a entamé le chantier de la recherche universelle,

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Source : Zorgloob, Google Master Plan

Lecteurs de Zorgloob, vous connaissez tous le fameux “Master Plan”, ce tableau blanc géant dans le hall d’accueil du Googleplex qui reflète tous les “délires” ou simplement les bonnes idées des Googlers.

Vous savez également que ce tableau a été effacé le 28 septembre dernier et, grâce à Tom, vous avez pu en voir quelques photos, malheureusement pas très nettes…

Voila qui est réparé

Source : Blog d’un futur employé chez Google

Documentaire de 52 minutes diffusé pour la première fois le dimanche 9 décembre 2007 à 22:20
Auteur-réalisateur : Gilles Cayatte
Production : France 5 / Dream Way Productions
Année : 2007

Merci pour la diffusion de ces videos grace a : Pmb236

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Humans Interupting Algorithms: Wales v. Calacanis on Human Powered Search

Article edit : January 21, 2008 12:30 PM

A large group of international tech rock stars are at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich today and friend of RWW Martin Källström of pre-launch search startup Twingly sent us a rough transcript of a particularly interesting panel this morning.

In this discussion, titled Humans Disrupting Algorithms, WIkipedia founder Jimmy Wales talks about his new search engine Wikio, Jason Calacanis talks about his human-powered search service Mahalo and there’s cameos by Google bigwig Marissa Meyer and international man of mystery Michael Arrington. Wikio and Mahalo are taking very different approaches to search. It was an interesting enough conversation that I read it from start to finish and thought readers here might want to as well.

JASON

We are an editorial company at Mahalo and we’ve been around for six months now. Here is an algorithmic search result for apple pie, filled with spam and weird stuff. Martha Stewart is not even here.

One person can pollute the internet with hundreds of thousands of pages in a matter of minutes. And the content…We are not trying to apply humans to any search imaginable. If you look at the long tail of search we are looking at filling the top spots with journalistic search results. Martha Stewart has to compete
with the slime buckets that are filling the web every day.

My belief is that for top searches human results will always come out on top. If you look at googles result for “paris hotels” it is filled with crap. Our search looks like this. When was the last time a clean directory was available on the web. Probably 10 years.

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