I guess the hint wasn’t good enough. I’m sure this will be fixed in an hour or two, which may or may not break the link, but here it is anyway :) Edit: They pulled the article about half an hour later.
Yes, they’ve finally done it. After months of talk about incorporating the mounds of real-time data to which Google has access, they’re finally piping it all into their own search results. The sources they listed are some pretty big names: Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace, and Jaiku, among others — and that’s not counting the major [...]
Google’s been tailoring search results for quite some time now, and their new Web History, a considerable upgrade to the venerable Search History, has made far deeper personalization a reality. Now they’ve taken it one step further — Google’s enabled personalized search for users who aren’t signed in to Google. Personalization without Google sign-in is [...]
Official pages on the matter: Official Google Blog Post Google Code Overview Google Code Instructions It’s as easy as entering two numbers in your internet connection settings. The payoff is minimal, but I’m quite happy to be using Google’s servers instead of Comcast’s.
Today, British PM Gordon Brown issued a fully open and public apology for the treatment of Alan Turing, whom his own government betrayed and drove to suicide far before most of us were ever born. Regardless of the timeframe, Turing played a part in all our lives today through his work with early computers and [...]
[UPDATE]: Facebook has since responded to me regarding this issue, see that post for updates. Image: Culture Smith Consulting “Peter” in this case is the Facebook user logged in to his account. The woman in the “Hot Singles” ad is his own wife. According to Facebook, these ads “respect all privacy rules.” Personally, I think [...]