It’s amazing the amount of Google executives, engineers and senior staff who have left to join startup internet ventures. Google may be one of the best places in America to work, but it is always more fun to work for yourself or work with no supervision on a project you love. Computer Scientists Who Left…
First! Video of online social media commenters overtaking the boardroom. When the anonymity of the internet becomes real life anti-social you get a mix of anarchy and entertainment. Comment from the Digg: “All those comments that you’ve buried… what if those people all worked together?” Video originally on CollegeHumor.com, which tries to include tons of…
What do you get when you combine Google search engine and Digg social voting: Giggle. There is a strong possibility the Digg users will have their usernames transferred to Google accounts. I can’t wait to see the uprising on digg when they realize all their voting and browsing history will be transferred to Google, and…
Social Media Club Los Angeles technology business networking group. This group has 122 confirmed members so far and should be worthwhile event. This month’s meeting will feature a panel of industry professionals and practitioners who will discuss principles of navigating through and participating in the social web. The panel will explore social media and the…
.FAIL Something is very fishy with the .me domain name registration system. Individuals who have signed up and paid for .me names are not receiving them. Multiple people have even been approved and charged for the same domain name! Most of the really good names were registered by Afilias. There are super shady registrations where…
Advertisers using PPC search services think their ads must be in the top position in order to make the most money, but this is a novice point of view. The ad in the first position is more likely to receive compulsive clicks that don’t convert and at the same time, cost more. Advertisers in the…
The popular Long Island New York newspaper Newsday was penalized by Google for selling text links that pass pagerank. Here is a screenshot of the crazy amount of nofollow tags used by Newsday.com There are nearly 100 no followed links, but it’s quite curious to see which links are still passing PR. Semi related links…
Before becoming a Vice President, Melissa Mayer used to be Google’s chief homepage officer and among other duties she answered support emails. When they were making homepage updates a loyal Googler notified them each time the word count changed, culminating with “61, getting a bit heavy, aren’t we?” The Google homepage now stands at 28…
You thought Google was cool for being able to return a set of results for common search engine queries? Google has nothing on the engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence beb-based question answering system START. The MIT computer engineers have created a usable computer logic system that returns readable answers to natural…
Udi Manber, a lead search engineer at Google lists the teams that comprise the search functionality. He discusses the search quality group, which is responsible for the ranking of search results. He Web search is the most used Google search service, and the same ranking algorithms are also used with some modifications, for other Google…
