All the way back in 2003, Google filed a patent application for "Methods and systems for assisted network browsing. That patent has been granted this week. The patent abstract reads:
Is Google Showing Political Bias with Search Results?
There are people who think Google is incorporating political bias into search results. As examples they use misspellings of George Bush and Barack Obama. Are the results of misspelled queries really something Google would take the time to specifically alter to inject their political beliefs though?
Search for Barack Aboma in Google and you will get a "Did you mean: barack obama" suggestion, and the top 2 results for Barack Obama:
Showing Respect With Your Anchor Text
Bloggers and other web-based writers do a lot of linking. It’s great for the Blogosphere. In fact it’s really the only reason we have a Blogosphere. How often are our links misleading though? I’m not talking about "paid" or sponsored links that are deceptive and just trying to go after a click. That’s another issue entirely. I’m talking about just the everyday point-of-reference links.
YouTube Video Causes Stir By Showing How Democrats Caused Crisis
In another example of the power of the Internet to move public perception, a video that shows how the Democrats caused the current financial crises has nearly 850,000 views just hours after being linked to by The Drudge Report.Updated (092908) to 850,000 views.
Content Creators Showing Ads On YouTube
At the annual shareholder meeting a month ago, Google promised new YouTube ad formats that would be neither pre-roll or post-roll.
News Corp. Showing Classmates.com Success Path
Rupert Murdoch, chair of News Corp., is buying Dow Jones & Co, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal for $5 billion. Yesterday he announced that he’s ending the subscription model for the WSJ.com website (which many deem a success).
Yahoo, Still Second In UK, Showing Improvement
“Good game, good game.” That’s what we used to say to each other after sporting events, even if one side had walloped the other by an almost unimaginable amount. And that’s what somebody might say to the Yahoo search team in Britain – it isn’t winning, but it sure is trying hard.
Google, Your Long Tail is Showing
Reuters is reporting that Google is opening up its “advertise on this site” feature to everyone by re-branding it “On-site Advertiser Sign-Up.”
Microsoft Showing Off SQL Server 2005 At Gitex
The world’s largest software company let the middle-eastern market take a gander at the SQL Server 2005 and their development tool, Visual Studio 2005, at the September edition of the Gitex conference in Dubai, UAE.
Favicons Showing Up In Google AdSense
As Google’s AdSense advertising program continues to embrace the graphical side of web advertising, many bloggers are noticing and commenting on the changes being made by Google while providing advertising for its members.