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December 11, 2015Google Online Security Blog: An Update to End-To-End
September 28, 2015An Update to End-To-End [gmail encryption]
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/an-update-to-end-to-end.html Looks interesting & potentially useful but a little raw. Anyone used this?
How Could Google’s New Logo Be Only 305 Bytes, While Its Old Logo Is 14,000 Bytes?
September 15, 2015How Could $GOOG’s New Logo Be Only ~.3kB, While [Old] Is 14kB? http://gizmodo.com/how-could-googles-new-logo-be-only-305-bytes-while-its-1728793790 A Triumph for San-serif v serif fonts HT @KirkDBorne
Set up mail delegation – Gmail Help
March 18, 2015Google Scholar Wins Raves—But Can It Be Trusted?
February 7, 2015#Google Scholar Wins Raves—But Can It Be
Trusted?http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6166/14 #Citation spam possible, fake papers artificially inflating H-index
Science 3 January 2014:
Vol. 343 no. 6166 p. 14
DOI: 10.1126/science.343.6166.14
NEWS & ANALYSIS
SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING
Google Scholar Wins Raves—But Can It Be Trusted?
John Bohannon
Google Scholar is picking up adherents in the scientific community. But the search service’s ascendancy is not going unchallenged.
Improve Collaborative Editing Of Office Files With Dropbox & Project Harmony
January 12, 2015Improve Collaborative Editing Of #Office Files With Dropbox & Project Harmony http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/improve-collaborative-editing-office-files-dropbox-project-harmony Interesting alternative to #Google Docs
The Slippery Slope of Silicon Valley – NYTimes.com
December 11, 2014The Slippery Slope of Silicon Valley
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/style/uber-facebook-and-others-bedeviled-by-moral-issues.html #Tech world Yin-&-yang – eg for $GOOG, amazing free services v #privacy concerns
Google and the Right to Be Forgotten
October 24, 2014The Solace of Oblivion http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/solace-oblivion In Europe, the right to be forgotten trumps #Google. In the US copyright is effective for this
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In the effort to escape unwanted attention on the Internet,
individuals and companies have had success with one weapon: copyright
law. It is unlawful to post photographs or other copyrighted material
without the permission of the copyright holder. “I needed to get
ownership of the photos,” Bremer, the Catsouras family’s lawyer, told
me. So he began a lengthy negotiation with the California Highway
Patrol to persuade it to surrender copyright on the photographs. In
the end, though, the C.H.P. would not make the deal.
Other victims of viral Internet trauma have fared better with the
copyright approach. In August, racy private photographs of Jennifer
Lawrence, Kate Upton, and other celebrities were leaked to several Web
sites. (The source of the leaks has not been identified.) Google has
long had a system in place to block copyrighted material from turning
up in its searches. Motion-picture companies, among others, regularly
complain about copyright infringement on YouTube, which Google owns,
and Google has a process for identifying and removing these links.
Several of the leaked photographs were selfies, so the women
themselves owned the copyrights; friends had taken the other pictures.
Lawyers for one of the women established copyrights for all the
photographs they could, and then went to sites that had posted the
pictures, and to Google, and insisted that the material be removed.
Google complied, as did many of the sites, and now the photographs are
difficult to find on the Internet, though they have not disappeared.
“For the most part, the world goes through search engines,” one lawyer
involved in the effort to limit the distribution of the photographs
told me. “Now it’s like a tree falling in the forest. There may be
links out there, but if you can’t find them through a search engine
they might as well not exist.”
…
The job had two parts. The first was technical—that is, creating a
software infrastructure so that links could be removed. This was not
especially difficult, since Google could apply the system already in
place for copyrighted and trademarked works. Similarly, Google had
already blocked links that might have led to certain dangerous or
unlawful activity, like malware or child pornography.
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Yahoo To Shut Down Qwiki, Yahoo Education And The Yahoo Directory | TechCrunch
October 3, 2014Yahoo To Shut Down…Directory
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/26/yahoo-to-shut-down-qwiki-yahoo-education-and-the-yahoo-directory Total victory for #textmining (ie Google) over manual #ontologies for web organization
The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis
September 29, 2014Parable of #Google Flu: Traps in #BigData Analysis http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6176/1203.summary Replicating results is hard, w/ an ever-changing search algorithm
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