Friday, March 25, 2005

All the news robots pick

CNET News.com It has been "a difficult week for Google's automated news service, which aims to best traditional newspapers with mathematical algorithms and robots crawling the Web. "

The lack of a business model is said to have left Google open to criticism on every aspect of it's news service and for me exposes the central internal contradictions of algfo based objectivity - itself a human concept after all.....

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Google co-founders left out of bonuses

CNET News.com: "Google is awarding bonuses to four executives for their work last year, but will not give bonuses to its CEO or to co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin."

Millions of Pages Google Hijacked using ODP Feed

Slashdot: "The Real Nick W writes 'Threadwatch reports that millions of pages are being Google Hijacked using the 302 redirect exploit and the ODP's RDF dump. The problem has been around for a couple of years and is just recently starting to make major headlines." Googleguys refutation gets ripped to shreds....