Google has announced advanced searching with Firefox:Now Google's faster than ever on Firefox and Mozilla browsers. When you do a search on these browsers, we instruct them to download your top search result in advance, so if you click on…
Month: March 2005
ChoicePoint to Allow People Access, but Questions Remain
The AP is reporting that ChoicePoint will allow consumers to access and review their personal information on file with the data aggregation company. "You will receive the reports that we have on you," Don McGuffey, the firm's vice president for…
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Problems of Personalized Search
Google Blogoscoped has an interesting post on the potential problems of personalized search, including (a) as users change their behavior, relying on prior behavior becomes less accurate, (b) users don't like to login, (c) users don't always want localized searches,…
Fordham Conference on “Law and the Information Society”
Fordham University School of Law is hosting a conference on "Law and the Information Society" on April 7-8.Date(s): 04.07.05 | Thu -- 04.08.05 | FriTime: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.Location: James B.M. McNally Amphitheatre,…
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More on GoogleNews: Sources, Bias, Purpose
The concern over content selection at GoogleNews continues on Buzzmachine. I've had various reactions, which can be found throughout the comment threads, and in my earlier post on transparency. Allow me to highlight three more issues:SourcesThis issue first arose when…
German Greens Worry About Google
[via Google Blogoscoped]The German green party, Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen, is worrying about search engine monopolies and a lack of transparency (and a long-lived cookie) in Google. The green party is currently ruling this country in a coalition with the…
Privacy and Vehicle Travel
Privacy.org points to a Boston.com article that discusses recent privacy concerns about the upcoming implementation of E-ZPass (electronic toll collection) in New Hampshire:The E-ZPass system that will soon make it easier to pay tolls in New Hampshire will make it…
IT Developers Need to Consider Privacy Implications of Systems
Privacy Digest points to this ComputerWeekly.com article reporting a debate among senior representatives from IT user companies, suppliers, government and universities about how IT designers' need to be aware of privacy concerns when designing their systems.IT can have a major…
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Demanding Transparency in GoogleNews
Jeff Jarvis recently demanded more transparency in GoogleNews:We're demanding transparency of mainstream news.Well, it's high time we get transparency from GoogleNews.Instapundit and LGF point to a nazi site -- complete with "love your race" graphics -- that is part of…
Mind-Mapping and Spatial Information Navigation
Today's New York Times includes a story on mind-mapping software, "To-Do List: Shop, Pay Bills, Organize Brain." It suggests that to learn new topics, organize ideas and spur creative thinking, people should draw dynamic and unstructured "mind maps" rather than…
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