Michael Trkulja of Melbourne won a defamation lawsuit against Google after discovering that its search results were linking him to an underworld figure called Tony Mokbel, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
Melba was born Helen Porter Mitchell, but used the name Melba in honor of her birthplace in Melbourne. Google is celebrating the 150th birthday of Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba with a special logo on Google Australia today.
It was produced and directed in 1906 by Dan Barry and Charles Tait of Melbourne. YouTube has a tradition of celebrating April Fools Day as only the the largest worldwide video-sharing community can. Today, YouTube is highlighting the "Top 5 Viral...
Brent Coker, from the Department of Management and Marketing at The University of Melbourne. It reminds me of the 1984 movie "Footloose," where a town banned rock music and dancing. In today's version, instead of starring Kevin Bacon, perhaps...
A twelve-year old from Melbourne, Janelle San Juan won the Doodle4Google competition - one that saw over 10,000 entries from all over Australia. Guess Google just wanted to push their brand in the Australian market, but their promotion to hold a...
Alistar Moffat, University of Melbourne If your a search and information retrieval geek, an article in the just online issue of SIGIR Forum has a great annotated bibliography that you'll want to take a look at.
Melbourne Age Dec 19 2004 8:54PM GMT The Live Music Archive offers thousands of hours of free, legal music, available on demand. The Live Music Archive is a joint effort from etree.org and The Internet Archive to preserve and archive as many live...
Melbourne Age Jun 24 2004 1:20PM GMT Natural Listings Search Engine Watch Forums Anytime you appear more than once on a SERP [search engine result page”, you're creating 'surround sound impact' - while greatly adding to credibility, and...
Melbourne Age Jun 24 2004 1:20PM GMT Gary Flake is Principal Scientist and it would do all of this in a split second. In other words, the search engine would be an artificial intelligence (AI) so smart that if a correct answer could be found in...
Melbourne Age Oct 10 2003 2:46PM GMT Archivists and technicians at ITN, which now operates the British Pathe library, have created the images by re-scanning the newsreel's 3,500 hours of 35 millimeter film.
Melbourne Age Jan 29 2003 1:42PM GMT Wasn't that the much heralded, but now long-gone fad that was supposed to wipe out traditional bricks and mortar commerce? Yes and no. Despite the spectacular flameout of dubious ventures selling everything...
Melbourne Age Nov 3 2002 9:40PM GMT Alert readers have noticed that our "regular" new Monday feature has been anything but. Chalk that up to a couple of lengthy Monday issues over the past couple of weeks.
LookSmart bounces back from the dot-com crash.Melbourne Age Nov 3 2002 9:40PM GMT We tested the major engines to find out. We all have our ideas of what constitutes a "perfect" search result for our favorite queries.
