Posted February 19, 2013, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
A new report published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society says that most websites are connected in 19 clicks or less. Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási says the “close” connections are possible thanks to search engines, large aggregators and…
Posted December 17, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Following a year-and-a-half long anti-trust investigation, the Wall Street Journal reports that Google is expected to escape a final determination by the Federal Trade Commission thanks to the enactment of a number of "voluntary" measures -- a consent decree which…
Posted November 27, 2012, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
Anyone who thinks Google's results are solely the product of fancy-pants algorithms and clever engineering -- think again. The Register has taken a look into Google's 160-page guidebook which is essentially a reference manual for human "raters" -- yep, that's…
Posted November 9, 2012, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
A great number of changes have been brewing at Yahoo, the still relatively new home of Google executive turned Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. According to sources from All Things D, the latest shake-up is a redesigned look which appears to…
Posted October 17, 2012, 3:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
To the delight of nerds everywhere, Google has thrown together a beautiful exposè of its cutting-edge data centers located around the world. Glimpses inside the search giant's facilities -- data centers, in particular -- are considered a rare treat, but…
Posted September 6, 2012, 1:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, The Web
Firmly believing in the power of Bing, Microsoft is daring skeptics to compare its own search results against those of its arch nemesis, Google. The company's "Bing it On" initiative provides a blind, side-by-side challenge between the rivals, selecting the…
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