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Google Buys Facial Recognition Company PittPatt
Google has picked up a facial recognition group known as PittPatt. PittPatt's technology is likely to be used in Google+, although the potential applications are broad.
Is Social Conversation The Future Of Polls And Surveys ? [Study]
Carnegie Mellon University researchers demonstrated how Tweets (“Twitter data” as they call them) replicate opinion estimation for two major U.S. indicators, with ... read more
Location-Based Social Networking to Generate $3.3 Billion by 2013
Location-based social networking is projected to generate worldwide revenues of $3.3 billion by 2013, according to ABI Research. But the business model ... read more
Report: Lycos May Have Laid Off Most Its Search Team Go
Battelle over at Searchblog reports that two sources have told him that Lycos may have let most of its search team go ... read more
Universities, Search and IR Research
Stefanie Olsen does a great job offering a look at several search and info retrieveal research projects underway at various universities in ... read more
A Look at Search Interface Protocols and Specifications
Developers and other search geeks out there might find this draft document that lists and discusses a number of search interface protocols ... read more
Sight-Impaired Users Have Problems with Registration Process at Google
“Is Google Shutting Out The Blind?” by Susan Kuchinskas at InternetNews.com, reports that some sight-impaired Internet users are having problems with the ... read more
The Universal Library and Other Book Digitization Projects
Although Google’s recent announcement to digitize the contents of several large libraries got most of the press coverage, I’m glad to see ... read more
Google’s Usenet Timeline and Early Search Engine Announcements
Slashdot has a thread about a “new” timeline from Google that highlights interesting and historic posts from their 20 year Usenet (aka ... read more
More About The Internet Archive’s Library Digitization Project
In our article about Google’s library digitization project last week and this SEW Blog post, we noted another large library digitization project ... read more
