Last summer, I had the privilege of doing a podcast with Gary King, the Harvard professor and co-founder of this social media monitoring company. JC: What else are you paying attention to over there in Harvard land?
That's the premise of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, the latest book by Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review. NC: Google has done tests where it was able to determine, by monitoring a...
A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nick's 2004 book, Does IT Matter? NC: The web democratizes expression – everyone with a computer and a connection can be a global broadcaster – but it concentrates the economic rewards.
Partners with Oxford, Harvard copyright holder freak out later on. No, I wasn't part of the university's highly regarded information and computer science department. What if Google changes the rules further by offering tons of storage space for...
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard Ask Jeeves Where's The Blog Search? John Markoff in the New York Times reports that a computer science professor and two of his students have discovered a "composition flaw" in Google's desktop search...
Google's Thumbnails Illegal in Germany Greplaw.org, March 29, 2004 http://grep.law.harvard.edu/article.pl? Lycos rolls out a new toolbar that lets you search the web and your personal computer, indexing material in Microsoft Office and other files.
Sadly, the Harvard report didn't compare Google's filtering to that done by other search engines. Google's SafeSearch porn filter (http://www.google.com/help/customize.html#safe) was found to exclude non-porn sites such as the American Library...
