The recent news that Nokia will now use the Windows 7 operating system in its smart phones means that Microsoft stands to gain licensing revenues for its operating system as well as increased search advertising market share. Go…
Some influential tech voices deeply critical of today’s search technology hailed the victory of IBM’s Watson at Jeopardy! as a forerunner of a new type of more intelligent, useful and less spammy search. Here’s why that’s still…
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The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission have launched an antitrust investigation into Apple’s new media store, amid concern that the company will use its leverage in the multimedia device market to undermine competi…
The trouble lies in the quality of information — a thorny problem due to the subjectivity of “quality” in general. Google keeps tweaking its algorithms, but the junk content keeps rising to the top. In the arms race against sp…