Googling a cure for chest pain might put your personal information more at risk than you think, according to new research by Tim Libert of the Annenberg School for Communication. Heart Palpitations? Beware of Dr. Google, dans The Pennsylvania Gazette Libert, a doctoral student who specializes in computer security and Internet governance, looked at a little-known…
JOSHUA COHEN New York Times At the same time, I was investigating the more practical, or just more traditional, alternatives to Google: Bing (owned by Microsoft), Yahoo (operated by Google back then and by Bing now), Info.com (an aggregator of Yahoo/Bing, Google and others) and newer sites like DuckDuckGo and IxQuick (which don’t track your…
Google a profité de la saison d’Halloween pour partager son étude sur le maquillage, et la manière dont on peut en suivre les tendances grâce à Youtube. On y apprend qu’Halloween est la période où la demande est la plus forte, et que le contenu Youtube qui bat les records est un tutoriel pour se…
The story of Internet Archive, a nonprofit that’s taken on Google’ onetime mission of preserving the past. Medium
Quartz Online search engines have overtaken traditional media as the most trusted source for general news and information, according to a global survey of 27,000 people by Edelman, a public relations firm. The data will be presented to delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. The trust gap between traditional media and search engines…
Tim Kiladze THE GLOBE AND MAIL Canada’s financial institutions weathered the Great Recession much better than most, but now they face new challenges from such behemoths as Google and Apple, who want to get in on retail banking. Tim Kiladze asks if big tech has finally met its match
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Marcus Wohlsen Wired (…) Since the beginning, Google has cultivated the idea that its results are—like good journalism—unbiased, complete, and compelling. Nowhere is that message more clearly telegraphed than in the design of Google’s search interface itself. Google isn’t a person. It’s just this little box. Put your search here and the smartest computers in…