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Majority of webpages can be connected in just 19 clicks

Majority of webpages can be connected in just 19 clicks
  • 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…

Google may avoid FTC ruling by issuing voluntary changes

Google may avoid FTC ruling by issuing voluntary changes
  • 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…

Google hires thousands of humans to rank search results manually

Google hires thousands of humans to rank search results manually
  • 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…

Yahoo page redesign draws inspiration from Windows 8

Yahoo page redesign draws inspiration from Windows 8
  • 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…

Beautiful photos of Google's data centers will blow your mind

Beautiful photos of Google
  • 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…

Microsoft's "Bing It On" search-off pits Bing against Google

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  • 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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