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Exclusive: How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web

Exclusive: How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web
Want to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the world’s most powerful Internet company, that a room filled with three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives figure out how to make their search engine even smarter. This year, Google will introduce 550 or so improvements to its fabled algorithm, and each will be determined at a gathering just like this one. The decisions made at the weekly Search Quality Launch Meeting will wind up affecting the results you get when you use Google’s search engine to look for anything — “Samsung SF-755p printer,” “Ed Hardy MySpace layouts,” or maybe even “capital Burkina Faso,” which just happens to share its name with this conference room. You might think that after a solid decade of search-market dominance, Google could relax. Still, the biggest threat to Google can be found 850 miles to the north: Bing.

Curve Magazine Experience millions of the world’s best magazines and catalogs, all for free, in Issuu’s beautifully crafted app for Android. Discover a world of meaningful content, created by over 1.5 million publishers around the globe. Turn millions of digital pages with the swipe of a finger. Enjoy unlimited access to magazines, catalogs and more from wherever you are, whenever you like, at no cost. Stack collections of your favorite magazines and share them across social networks. Keep up with the latest fashion trends from NYT Style or V Magazine. The Battle Between Art & The Algorithm Technology … is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. –C.P. Snow, New York Times, March 15, 1971– There’s a battle raging, yet it’s almost Truman Show-like in its subtlety. Jim Carrey, in 'The Truman Show' As the granular world of relevance, measurability and accountability tightens its grip on the increasingly emaciated flesh of businesses struggling to re-tool quickly enough to survive, many are rushing too quickly away from striving for the magic that has characterized the work we all admire, no matter what the decade or canvas. As far as I know, no one is trying to kill me. It’s a world of perfect targeting. More and more of what I see, hear, read and even taste seems exceptionally cunningly targeted at me. All remarkable stuff. What could be possibly be wrong with all this? We’re talking about the end of surprise. And right there is the opportunity for marketing: to deliver not just relevance, but revelation. How?

Cleanup of Sandy expected to add billions to the national debt J. D. HeyesNatural News November 1, 2012 Well, it didn’t take long after Hurricane Sandy passed into history as the largest storm of its kind in several generations for someone in Washington to call for billions in new federal spending to compensate for its damage – billions that will, of course, be added to the trillions of dollars in debt the nation already owes. Rep. Congress never seems to miss an opportunity to spend money the government simply doesn’t have. “The American people deserve, and insist on, the kind of first-rate recovery response that FEMA can provide,” Fatah said, pretending to speak for We the People. Congress, mind you, has done nothing “on the cheap” in recent years. Little federal disaster ‘relief’ prior to FDR “The true present value of future obligations is $222 trillion,” says writes Laurence Kotlikoff, professor of economics at Boston University. A d v e r t i s e m e n t Just borrow it Sources:

100 Email Hacks It’s hard to believe that in 1998 when the movie “You’ve Got Mail” came out, people actually looked forward to opening their inbox. Back then “Inbox Zero” was an insult (“You have no friends, Inbox Zero-boy”). Now it’s considered a mythical utopia, a place where only a select few can ever hope to visit, and only very briefly. At SaneBox, we’ve done lots of research and thinking on ways to get better at email, and compiled this list of 100 hacks (i.e. tricks, tips, apps, methods) which will let you get to Inbox Zero every day. We promise that after reading this book (some might call it a pamphlet), you’ll be able to go back in time, to 1998, when you wished you got more email. The 3 Email Commandments You’re in denial.Get out of it Email is like Tetris. Don't let email be your # 1 priority Email is your to-do list that other people can write on. Not all emails are created equal Some need to be dealt with right away (urgent/important). Chapter #1 Share this Hack on Facebook

Video Search Engine Optimization - Website Video Seo - SlideShare It Begins: Ecuador Demands Repatriation Of One Third Of Its Gold Holdings Zero Hedge November 1, 2012 One week ago, when we reported the news that the Bundesbank had secretly pulled two thirds of its gold from London years ago, we said the following: … Germany has done nothing wrong! It simply demanded a reclamation of what is rightfully Germany’s to demand.And here is the crux of the issue: in a globalized system, in which every sovereign is increasingly subjugated to the credit-creating power of the globalized “whole”, one must leave all thoughts of sovereign independence at the door and embrace the “new world order.” It appears that the story, which has refused to go away, was not covered sufficiently fast, and precisely the worst case scenario – at least for the “asset-lite” status quo – is slowly but surely starting to materialize. So yesterday: Germany… today: Ecuador… tomorrow: the World? This article was posted: Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 6:49 am Print this page. Gremlins: Our Dear Leaders California Will Vote With NY To Probably Castrate All Men

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Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008 - ReadWriteWeb In 2008 we saw the Semantic Web gain traction, giving us plenty of choice when selecting the 10 best Semantic Web products of 2008. This is the first in a series of posts we'll publish over December, listing our choices for the top web products of the year. Then at the end of December, we'll post a Top 100 list - which we'll be promoting over 2009 and opening up at some point for public voting. Earlier this month we posted an update to 10 Semantic Web applications that we have been tracking for a year now. You may disagree with our selections, so do tell us in the comments what you think. Note: the products listed below are in no particular order Yahoo! In May this year Yahoo! We think this is the best use of Semantic Web by an Internet bigco this year. Powerset (acquired by Microsoft in '08) Powerset (see our initial coverage here and here) is a natural language search engine. Open Calais (Thomson Reuters) Dapper MashupAds Hakia TripIt Tripit is an app that manages your travel planning.

FOOD INC JUNK FOOD RACKET 1 The Reign of Evil Food as a Weapon of War [aka Food Inc. High Corporate (Authoritarian Psychopathy) profit food, sold as 'saving you money' and 'solving world hunger', but the actual agenda is stealing your money while they poison and malnourish you (same thing), along with destroying small farmers------Toxic (GM foodsToxic milk, Bottle-milk Irradiation Pasteurization); low nutrition (Arthritis White Bread Infection & nutrition); low life; poison containing (Pesticides SugarAspartame MSG Cola); cruel to animals (Animal Abuse, which helps Vivisection); deadly to animals (Bovine TB FMD BSE), small farmers (Destroying small farmers Indian suicides FMD suicides); and is environmentally harmful (Pesticides Swine flu 2009). Obviously, Food Inc fox in charge of Government hen house as you can see here, also in the American food pyramid and treatment of HARVEY W. WILEY, M.D. Mafias: Medical Green Global Warming Drugs Oil War Sex Education Terror Political Financial

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