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Moteur. Dieu_google. Socialgraph. Protection-des-données. Maps. Moteurs. Référencement. Google traduit maintenant en latin. Google Research Home. Google Scholar sélectionne t-il bien ses sources ? Life after Google, with millions | CNET News.com. Editors' note: This is part one of a two-part series. In part two, published Wednesday, a software engineer turned sustainable real estate developer and others explain why leaving Google is never easy.What would you do if you were flush with $10 million or $100 million?

Would you retire, go to work every day at the company that made you rich, or chase other dreams? That's the multimillion-dollar question for hundreds of early Googlers. By some estimates, more than 900 employees became instant millionaires when Google went public in August 2004, and that total has likely ballooned along with the stock price. According to the company's most recent securities filing, Google employees held 11,662,917 outstanding stock options as of September 30, 2007.

But as those bank accounts have filled up, many early Googlers have left the company. Some ex-Googlers are chasing summer around the world, raising families, or just sleeping late. Google Stops "Did You Mean: He Invented" Google Stops "Did You Mean: He Invented" Google was recently reported to correct the following search queries via their “did you mean?” Functionality: This spellchecking behavior (which is automated, and probably based on the web corpus or searcher behavior) has now been stopped.

It might be Google engineers manually corrected this using a blacklist, or they advanced their algorithm to return more relevant spellcheckings for cases like these – it seems clear that a search query like “she invented” is not likely to be a misspelling (it may be, but it likely isn’t in most cases, hence a “did you mean” box is bad usability). In an earlier case about offensive search results, Google wrote: Sometimes subtleties of language cause anomalies to appear that cannot be predicted. (...) The beliefs and preferences of those who work at Google, as well as the opinions of the general public, do not determine or impact our search results. [Thanks David Hetfield!] >> More posts Advertisement.

Google's Real Fight in China. Google’s Real Fight in ChinaBy Michael Liang Zhang & Yan Luo Michael Liang Zhang is the assistant managing editor of Global Entrepreneur magazine, where this article originally appeared in Chinese language in November 2008. Michael, whose own “20% percent project” is a blog focusing on Apple, followed Google China’s story for three years now and has interviewed many of Google China’s employees. Yan Luo is a reporter of Global Entrepreneur magazine. She covered the internet and venture capitalist scene for the magazine for three years. It was a cold day in early 2008 when Kai-Fu Lee received an unexpected call from a key figure of Tencent Inc., who threw a question, polite but surprising, to Mr. Google China. “Is there any chance for QQ to take over Google China?” However, the questioner might have overestimated the wow factor from Lee.

Again, Tencent’s offer ran into a dead end. Google’s China stories mean more than the hard life of a company. Reality Distortion Field It’s far from a win. Google améliore Google Docs. Google vient d’annoncer une série d’amélioration dans sa suite bureautique en ligne. Les applications en ligne se voient en effet entièrement remises à jour, et l’éditeur en profite pour y ajouter quelques nouvelles options. Changements dans les Docs Les éditeurs de texte et de feuille de calcul se voient donc totalement renouvelés. La nouvelle interface semble désormais plus claire et plus professionnelle. Ses améliorations sont nombreuses, comme l’inclusion d’une marge, d’une table des matières, une barre de formules pour le tableur ou encore l’autocomplétion. Un outil de collaboration en temps réel, déjà testé par Google, permet jusqu’à 50 personnes de travailler ensemble sur le même document, avec un suivi des modifications apportées par chacun et un système de discussion en ligne sur les changements.

Des options de confidentialité font également leur apparition dans cette vague de mise à jour. Protecting your data in the cloud. Posted by Priya Nayak, Consumer Operations, Google Accounts Like many people, you probably store a lot of important information in your Google Account. I personally check my Gmail account every day (sometimes several times a day) and rely on having access to my mail and contacts wherever I go. Aside from Gmail, my Google Account is tied to lots of other services that help me manage my life and interests: photos, documents, blogs, calendars, and more. That is to say, my Google Account is very valuable to me. Unfortunately, a Google Account is also valuable in the eyes of spammers and other people looking to do harm. As part of National Cyber Security Awareness month, we want to let you know what you can do to better protect your Google Account. Stay one step ahead of the bad guys Account hijackers prey on the bad habits of the average Internet user.

The most common ways hijackers can get access to your Google password are: Take control of your account security across the web. Media. Google annonce aujourd'hui l'acquisition de la société reCaptcha. C'est une toute petite boîte de 6 personnes donc la taille de l'acquisition n'est pas le sujet. Ce qui m'intéresse, c'est le modèle qui se cache derrière: nous faire bosser au noir pour le géant de Mountain View en améliorant la reconnaissance optique pour que les 10 millions de livres déjà digitalisés dans Google Books et ceux à venir soient encore de plus haute qualité. En effet, un volume important (en millions...) de livres sont de vieux livres afin qu'ils soient libres de droit: la qualité du papier, de l'encre et de l'impression se sont dégradés. Le processus OCR est donc plus difficile. L'idée que je trouve brillante est d'utiliser les captchas produits par le service reCaptcha pour "faire d'une pierre deux coups" selon le proverbe: utiliser le captcha pour son but habituel: vérifier que celui qui veut commenter, écrire une contribution, etc... est bien un humain.

Comment ? Le modèle est donc finalement à 2 niveaux: Guerre de l'information - Information Warfare. How Google Stole Control Over Content Distribution By Stealing Links. There is so much misunderstanding flying around about the economics of content on the web and the role of Google in the web’s content economy that it’s making my head hurt. So let’s see if we can straighten things out. Google isn’t stealing content from newspapers and other media companies. It’s stealing their control over distribution, which has always been the engine of profits in media. Google makes more money than any other media company on the web because it has near monopoly control over content distribution (i.e. like a metro newspaper in the pre web era).

Those who argue that Google is a friend to content owners because it sends them traffic overlook the basic law of supply and demand. The value of “traffic” is entirely relative. The more content there is on the web, the less value that content has — because of the surfeit of ad inventory and abundance of free alternatives to paid content — and thus the less value “traffic” has.

Nick Carr sums up the problem well: Google : la "fascisation" rampante du Web. Avec … Google est en train de broyer tous les écosystèmes des médias et du Web. En remarque liminaire, je tiens à faire savoir que je ne suis pas mandaté par Microsoft ou par un autre de ces anciens califes qui souhaitent ardemment retrouver leur statut de calife. Définition empruntée à l’histoire Pour bien me faire comprendre, j’ai fait le choix provocateur de transposer la définition du mot fascisme telle qu’elle figure dans Wikipédia : “Il Google s’est étendu à tout mouvement politique l’internet s’appuyant sur un pouvoir fort alogrithme, les métiers logiciels organisés en corporations services, l’exaltation du sentiment nationaliste de la marque, le rejet de l’opposition toute diversité et des institutions démocratiques et libérales concurrents et un contrôle politique économico-technico-médiatique extensif de la société civile planète entière.” De la même façon que ce sont les citoyens des démocraties qui ont pu élire leurs dictateurs, ce sont les internautes qui choisissent Google.

Tout ce que vous vouliez savoir sur Google - SlideShare. Google. GoogleXtra.Com - Search all of Google resources. Google - Le nouveau tube de l'été ? Technologies behind Google ranking. In my previous post, I introduced the philosophies behind Google ranking. As part of our effort to discuss search quality, I want to tell you more about the technologies behind our ranking.

The core technology in our ranking system comes from the academic field of Information Retrieval (IR). The IR community has studied search for almost 50 years. It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages. (See "Modern Information Retrieval: A Brief Overview" for a quick overview of IR technology.) Search in the last decade has moved from give me what I said to give me what I want. When we talk about queries at Google, we use square brackets [ ] to mark the beginning and end of queries (see "How to write queries" by Matt Cutts), a notation I will use throughout this post. Understanding pages: Over years we have invested heavily in our crawl and indexing system. Most users have used our spelling suggestion system at one time or another. The Reality Club: ON "IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID" By Nicholas Carr. This latest tiff (e.g. Shirky-Sanger) seems to boil down to another of Robert Wright's zero-sum dichotomies—like the hoary left-right political axis, or the "choice" we are all-too frequently offered, between safety and freedom.

Simplistic tradeoffs ought to raise our hackles. Is the Google Era empowering us to be better, smarter, more agile thinkers... or transforming us into distracted, manic scatterbrains? Alas, both sides are right... and both are missing key points. May I start by offering a step-back perspective? Only a generation ago, intellectuals wrung their hands over what then seemed a legitimate concern, that the rapidly-increasing pace of discovery and knowledge-accumulation would force individuals to specialize more and more. Funny thing, you just don't hear much about fear of over-specialization, anymore.

As it turned out, several counter-trends (some of them having nothing to do with the Internet) seem to have transformed the intellectual landscape. UN uses Google to pinpoint refugee crises | World news. The United Nations is using the mapping programme Google Earth to highlight the plight of millions of refugees and its humanitarian work to help them. The outreach programme, a joint initiative between the internet giant and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), weaves together satellite maps, photos, videos and eyewitness accounts to give viewers a close-up look at the refugee crises in Iraq, Chad, Columbia and Darfur in Sudan. It allows users to find out about UNHCR operations, locate refugee camps and discover the impact of the humanitarian crises on neighboring countries such as Sudan, Syria and Ecuador.

Users can explore the lives of those in exile by clicking on exact locations in the refugee camps to see photos of the facilities, such as health clinics, schools, water taps and sanitation. There are pop-up videos of specific operations and events, such as a visit to a Chad refugee camp by the actor and UN goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie. John Battelle's Searchblog: I Disagree, Google. Google has come out with a policy around political ads on its sites, and I commend it for transparency and setting a level playing field. But I disagree with the policy. Why? Well, to quote a portion of its post on the policy: No attacks on an individual’s personal life. I understand why Google took this course, but I have to say, it’s part of an ongoing sanitization of our political life that, in the end, pushes all of politics toward whitewashing and dishonesty.

Just my two cents. IOL Technology - 'Google is massively invading privacy' Interactive online Google tutorial and references. Web 2.0 et High-Tech, Marketing, Mobile et Jeux. L'espion Google. The issue of privacy has long been a big interest of mine and lately I have seen it become an important topic in the world of free internet services. You can see some of my views on privacy in a previous post. John Battelle asked a crucial question about ownership of Google search profiles on his blog, which was followed by a very interesting comment discussion. That question was: who owns my personal search history?

Something happened to me recently that turned this discussion upside down. A couple of months ago, l was pitching our product to a VC in a coffee house in Palo Alto. He wanted to compare LeapTag to Google Personalized Search, so he logged in to his Google account from my laptop. A week ago, I received an email from him asking me if the following searches were ones I made recently, and he included a list of searches.

My jaw dropped! I cannot begin to express how violated I felt. Since then I have performed a test to verify this behavior. Then I went to the other PC. . - Cuneyt.