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According to a study conducted by Jupiter Research, sixty five percent of advertisers will increase their spending in search marketing in the…
Google is “happy to announce” the new OCRopus OCR Project, which will focus on the cutting edge of handwriting recognition technology. Expect the Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition (IUPR) research group to do the heavy lifting, though - Google’s role will mostly be that of a sponsor. (The state of Rhineland Palatinate, according to IUPR, is also providing funding.)
Spam is the mosquito of the Internet; a pesky nuisance that will seemingly never go away, and according to a study from IDC it is only going to become worse.
The issue of data privacy has long been one of intense debate and speculation across the blogosphere. Reports have surfaced here and there of ISPs selling clickstream data to third party advertisers for mere cents per user. As journalists continue seeking answers, the ISPs are remaining conspicuously tight-lipped about their data practices.
Google is often fun to deal with - the company, generally speaking, has a great sense of humor. But in a Gmail-related “Suggest a feature” section, it’s hard to tell where the jokes stop, and therefore hard to tell where the service may be headed.
After the uproar caused by his proposed code of conduct for bloggers, Tim O'Reilly could have let the subject drop into the deep waters of blogospheric controversy, only to be remembered as a cautionary tale, a footnote to the history of the Web.
