As I was writing my previous article for SEJ, I conducted several experiments during which I stumbled across few troubling issues with Google’s methods. One such behavior is a serious issue in terms of customer awareness, which may be considered border-line fraudulent. Make no mistake, my intention is not to become the Ralph Nader for …
I am writing this article in response to the recently posted“Google Quality Rater Guidelines 2012″ document, seemingly leaked, speculatively injected into the market. Before I dissect the specimen, let me start with a general Google overview first. For all practical, technical, scientific, and artistic purposes, Google is not a search engine, at least not for me. …
“Hi, nice to meet you, my name is ZettaByte!” If you are from the generation familiar with the terms MegaByte, GigaByte, and TerraByte, prepare yourselves for a whole new vocabulary, the likes of which your predecessors probably could not imagine. Soon terms like PetaByte, ExaByte, and ZettaByte will be as common as the aforementioned, with benefits and …
“Information pollution is the odorless, invisible sewerage of human intelligence, somebody has to clean it up.” If you go to the Wikipedia page for pollution, you will see several forms of pollution from air varieties to water bound forms, but you will not find information pollution there. This is an excellent example, and a reference …
