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Search Engine Society on Amazon

Via Twitter: cshirky: Twitter office pool: How many books will come out in 2008 with ‘Google’ in the title? Round your answer to nearest dozen… Well, not mine :). It’s on Amazon, now, with book preview, which means it must be real. However, the release date listed by Amazon is December 31. If you were […]
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Stupifying Google

I’ll be on the Kojo Nnamdi show at noon today, talking about the effect of the internet and search engines on the production and distribution of knowledge, along with Nicholas Carr, James Evans, and Erika Linke. If you are local in DC, or you are listening online, call up and bug us. Or, if you […]
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Google me

(via LLVE)
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Why Google Rules?

Hal Varian, who is generally someone worth listening to, has a post up on the Google Blog about why he thinks his company (yes, he works for Google) continues to dominate the market. After dismissing economies of scale, lock-in, and network effects, he goes on to say: The answer, at least in my opinion, is […]
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