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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(Nov. 1) -- Should the almighty Google watch its back? The folks working on the Blekko search engine -- not to be confused with the disgraced former Chicago mayor turned reality TV star Blago -- certainly hope so. Blekko co-founder and chief executive Rich Skrenta says the new search tool, released to the public today, aims to filter out superfluous query results and content overrun with SEO-driven links in favor of only useful, reliable websites. "The goal is to clean up Web search and get all the spam out of it," Skrenta told The New York Times. But there is such a copious amount of ...
(Aug. 9) -- Not everyone is buying Google's announcement that software engineers at the company's Google Books Search project successfully counted all the world's books, coming up with a total of nearly 130 million. An article published today by Jon Stokes at Ars Technica claims that the count is probably bunk. How does he figure? According to Stokes' piece: A simple Google search for "google books metadata" (sans quotes) will turn up mostly criticisms and caterwauling by dismayed linguists, librarians, and other scholars at the terrible state of Google's metadata. Erroneous dates are ...
Britain has long been famous for its surveillance state. There are security cameras everywhere you go. The country has the largest DNA database in the world. And a national identity card program is well underway. But new revelations that British police have been spying on domestic protesters have infuriated citizens all along the political spectrum. ...
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