Tag Archives: Search Engines

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

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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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Wikia Search Alpha

I’ve had a chance to play around with Search Wikia over the weekend. The New York Times provides a broad overview today. One of the arguments of my book is that a lack of transparency is one–though only one–of the socially dysfunctional forces of the current crop of search engines. Google sometimes reminds me of […]
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