Tag Archives: Search Engines
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 […]
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 […]
Stupifying Google