Tag: search_engine

  • The myth of privacy

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    Tom Raftery
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    You do know that every search term you type into a search engine is saved by the search engine, don’t you? That time you searched for porn, or an ex boy/girlfriend, or information about an illness you thought you might have – all saved by the search engine. This practice was brought sharply into focus…

  • Salim Ismail interview coming up

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    Tom Raftery
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    I will be interviewing Salim Ismail, chairman & co-founder of PubSub in the next couple of days. Pubsub is a blog search engine or as Salim likes to say a “matching engine”. I was amazed to learn, from talking to Salim here at the les Blogs 2.0 conference, that Salim lived and worked in Cork…

  • Developments in search

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    Tom Raftery
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    Two search announcements overnight: Chris Pirillo announces a new search engine – Gada.be and Yahoo! builds blog search into its News Search service The Yahoo! blog search engine is disappointing – from a user interface point of view – the blog search results are hidden away in a sidebar of the main results on the…