SMX: Personalized Search – Fear or Not?

Despite the session’s title, the Q&A quickly devolved into less of a discussion of “Fear or Not” and more into “Why did you do this to us, Google?!” (Followed closely by the response, “You’re not normal. Er, a regular user.”)

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Microsoft: What Google Killer?

Microsoft doesn't have a Google-killer, and that's pretty much it. At least, that's how it sounds from a somewhat flippant Satya Nadella, Mr. Softy's newest head of search and search advertising. "Microsoft: What Google Killer?"

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The World Thinks Google’s Big Brother

There’s a lot of buzzing in the blogosphere right now (you can read Jordan’s coverage here), as it appears Google is under fire again for its privacy policies. AP reports that London-based Privacy International has issued a study of 23 internet companies, with Google coming out dead-last. In fact no other company studied, received the same low rating.

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Google Almost “Endemic Threat to Privacy”

Privacy International chose to label Google as with the worst privacy rating of any of the twenty-three companies they examined in their report on privacy for Internet service companies. I think that at least some of the reasoning behind PI’s rating is found in their statement:

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Microsoft’s Silverlight A Menace To YouTube?

Soapbox represented Microsoft’s attempt kill YouTube.  It failed.  Actually, since Soapbox was pulled off the market, then reintroduced, you could say that it failed twice.  In any event, Microsoft may now take another shot at YouTube, and this time the company’s hopes rest with Silverlight.

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