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Jason Calcanis on how to kill Google

By Michael Becker | Published: November 13, 2009
This smacks of car­tel, but only if the pub­lish­ers work together to start charg­ing for the right to index their con­tent. If they did it sep­a­rately, it would just be smart busi­ness — find­ing a way to charge for their online content. “New York Times, only avail­able on Bing.” The hor­ror, the horror! Of course, [...]
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Google Book Search disappoints the scholarly searcher

By Michael Becker | Published: September 3, 2009
University of California professor Geoffrey Nunberg has taken a critical look at Google's book search and found it's metadata lacking -- though he does find room for a little hope.
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Links from Lee, Kelly and Melynda

By Michael Becker | Published: June 2, 2009
Lee shares this video made by Google to explain the way its Google Docs sys­tem works. Lee has this to say about the video: Here’s a video link I came across. It’s dif­fer­ent than the “story telling” we’ll prob­a­bly be doing, but I still think it’s well done because it presents a chal­lenge and a solu­tion in [...]
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Google as the news industry’s middle man

By Michael Becker | Published: April 12, 2009
In the grand scheme of things, the Internet was sup­posed to directly con­nect peo­ple — buy­ers and sell­ers, read­ers and writ­ers, etc. — and elim­i­nate the mid­dle man. In real­ity, the mid­dle man is more impor­tant than ever, and the biggest mid­dle man of them all is Google, argues Nicholas Carr.
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A quick note

By Michael Becker | Published: March 22, 2009
I added some search engine opti­miza­tion tools to the site today, a cou­ple of plu­g­ins for WordPress. Don’t think I’ve sold out. I’m not going to add adver­tise­ments or any­thing. I just want to exper­i­ment a bit and see if these plu­g­ins bring me any more traf­fic. I’ll report on what I find.
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