http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-explains-how-it-searches-the-internet-in-under-half-a-sec/&category=classic&postPage=1 Ever wonder how Google manages to search the entire web and return results in half a second? Well, RobertvH from Munich did, and Mountain View’s head of web-spam, Matt Cutts, talks you through it in the above YouTube video. The short answer? Lots of backend firepower and, you know, a few years in the search game. If you remember the Google dance, Cutts explains what caused that, before going on to give a good idea about how today’s version of the site does what it does. If you’re thinking this all sounds a bit too much like SEO 101, you’d… ]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:49:39 -0700 http://engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/24/google-explains-how-it-searches-the-internet-in-under-half-a-sec/&category=classic&postPage=1 http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/5/25/a-joke-twitter-feed-that-could-change-the-way-we-understand-the-internet/a-joke-twitter-feed-that-could-change-the-way-we-understand-the-internet-motherboard Google searches made by a 92 year old man = @oldmansearch : Existential twitter genius http://t.co/1m8rb2hw ]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:37:56 -0700 http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/5/25/a-joke-twitter-feed-that-could-change-the-way-we-understand-the-internet/a-joke-twitter-feed-that-could-change-the-way-we-understand-the-internet-motherboard http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen.html?_r=3/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen-nytimescom The Mechanic Muse: a brief history of reading devices from scroll to screen http://t.co/0bYUTKp4 #x #technology #reading #codex #search ]]> Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:45:32 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen.html?_r=3/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen-nytimescom http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen.html?_r=3/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen-nytimescom The Mechanic Muse: a brief history of reading devices from scroll to screen http://t.co/0bYUTKp4 #x #technology #reading #codex #search ]]> Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:29:18 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen.html?_r=3/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen-nytimescom http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen.html?_r=3/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen-nytimescom The Mechanic Muse: a brief history of reading devices from scroll to screen http://t.co/0bYUTKp4 #x #technology #reading #codex #search ]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2011 06:52:00 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen.html?_r=3/the-mechanic-muse-from-scroll-to-screen-nytimescom http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/all/1 The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to rate pages based on the number and importance of links that pointed to them — to use the collective intelligence of the Web itself to determine which sites were most relevant. It was a simple and powerful concept, and — as Google quickly became the most successful search engine on the Web — Page and cofounder Sergey Brin credited PageRank as their company’s fundamental innovation. But that wasn’t the… ]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:56:00 -0700 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/all/1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/26/dark-side-internet-freenet In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of openness – its global reach, its outflanking of censors, its seemingly all-seeing search engines. "Many many users think that when they search on Google they're getting all the web pages," says Anand Rajaraman, co-founder of Kosmix, one of a new generation of post-Google search engine companies. But Rajaraman knows different. "I think it's a very small fraction of the deep web which search engines are bringing to the surface. I… ]]> Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:14:00 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/26/dark-side-internet-freenet http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/ Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No less important, it is also almost certain to be the last one. Google's five-year head start and its relationships with libraries and publishers give it an effective monopoly: No competitor will be able to come after it on the same scale. Nor is technology going to lower the cost of entry. Scanning will always be an expensive, labor-intensive project. Of course, 50 or 100 years from now control of… ]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:24:00 -0700 http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/