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Facebook Graph Search: The Emperor Needs New Digital Clothes
While I very much welcome the discovery nature of Facebook’s Graph Search, in concept, at a very personal level I think we need to approach it with concern about what it can index about us.
I Might Be Too Old for Facebook Graph Search
Facebook’s Graph Search sounds great. But unless you and your pals are putting lots of data in, you’re probably not going to get a lot of data out.
TechnologizerSocial Networking
Facebook’s Graph Search Is the Future of Facebook
Graph Search lets you enter plain-English concepts that tie together multiple things the social network knows about the people who use it.
It’s Nice to See Google Focused On Search Again
For the moment, Google seems back to its old self again.
After a year of obsession with Google+, the search giant has returned to its roots with new search features that have nothing to do with social networking.
Google is …
Google Handwrite Pits Mobile Search Against Your Withered Penmanship
Remember handwriting? It’s back.
Google has rolled out a feature called Handwrite that works with smartphones and tablets through a simple settings tweak – there’s no app that needs to be installed, in other words.
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Microsoft Hounds Google for Piracy Takedowns, but Some Bing Results Remain
If you’re trying to search the web for pirated copies of Xbox games, Microsoft’s Bing is apparently the way to go.
This week, Google updated its transparency reports to show which copyright owners most frequently ask Google to …
Overhauled Google iPhone App: Full-Screen Image Results, Faster Search
Using Google to look up random stuff in social situations is one of the joys of owning an iPhone. Sadly, the search experience using Google’s iPhone app so far has been pretty unimpressive.
Google is looking to remedy that …
TechnologizerApps & Web
Wavii: The World Reorganized to Look like Facebook
Before the dawn of Facebook, the notion of organizing information into never-ending feeds of terse status updates would have sounded like gobbledegook. But Facebook proves that when it comes to keeping track of your friends’ …
TechnologizerGoogle
Remember Cuil? Google Does
Back in 2008, a search engine called Cuil launched. Its founders included several folks with impressive backgrounds in the search business. It claimed to be the world’s largest search engine, and said that it had figured out an …
Is Google In Danger of Being Shut Out of the Changing Internet?
The upcoming IPO of Facebook, the flak surrounding Twitter’s decision to censor some tweets, and Google’s weaker-than-expected 4th-quarter earnings all point to one of the big events of our times: The crazy, chaotic, idealistic days of the Internet are ending. Once, the Prairies were open and shared by everyone. Then the farmers …
TechnologizerGoogle
Search, Plus Your World: Google’s Risky Gambit
The web giant just mashed up its search engine and social network — and the results so far are unsatisfying.