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Thirty-Five Arguments Against Google Glass Google Glass is a snazzy set of specs that will part the Red Sea if you tap it from the right angle. It aims to fuse smartphones and computers into a hands-free user experience more pleasurable than sex, religion, and world domination combined. Glass is not yet on the market, but the news of its existence cut a hew through Mountain View with the strident fife of an unpaid piper wooing unsuspecting kids into a dark cave. It inspired Google co-founder Sergey Brin to publicly announce that he felt less male with the thick tools that came before. Some wondered why Brin didn’t just hold hard to his smartphone and slam down shots every Friday night like the rest of America. Brin was good enough to describe his new instrument to the Wall Street Journal last September: They are, uh, a new form of computing, uh, that’s designed to really free you. Here are thirty-five arguments against Google Glass: ARGUMENT ONE It could destroy whatever shreds of privacy we have left.

Deep Web Intelligence We are finding many different industries are able to capitalize on Data-as-a-Service (DaaS). In this post we’ll uncover how a mining company is using BrightPlanet’s Data-as-a-Service model to monitor the Ebola health outbreak to keep their expatriates informed and out of harm’s way with the use of one dataset. You’ll see what type of data is harvested and how it is enriched to make it usable. Continue reading At BrightPlanet, we receive a number of questions about how BrightPlanet’s technology differs from our biggest competitors. In this post, we hope to give you an understanding of how extraction companies and BrightPlanet’s harvesting technology don’t compete, as one may think, and explore the advantages of each individual technology. Continue reading Earlier this week, Forbes released an article titled “Insider Trading on the Dark Web”. Continue reading Continue reading With more data than ever existing online, that value of accessing data from the World Wide Web has never been greater.

Quintura - visual search engine In the vast digital landscape of the internet, search engines play a pivotal role in helping us find the information we seek. While major search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo dominate the market, there are several innovative alternatives that offer unique features and capabilities, including visual context-based image search. In this article, we'll explore 15 of the best alternative search engines, with a primary focus on those that offer image search capabilities akin to Quintura, taking a step beyond traditional keyword search. While popular search engines continue to dominate the digital landscape, these 15 alternative search engines offer unique features, with a special emphasis on visual context-based image search similar to Quintura. Whether you prioritize privacy, environmental sustainability, or simply desire a fresh approach to online search, these alternatives cater to a variety of preferences. ⚫ Manchester hotels ⚫ Liverpool hotels ⚫ Bournemouth hotels ⚫ Cambridge hotels

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Google Scholar Web Search Strategies The Web may seem like a vast ocean when it comes to finding something you need. Thankfully, search engines can help turn oceans of information into small pools that make finding information easier. Before we dive in, let’s talk a bit about how search works on the Web. Search engines go out and try to account for every word on every webpage. All this information is then organized for easy reference. When you search for a word, the search engine finds all the pages where the word appears, and displays them in the search results. The problem is that there are often too many results. Say you’re looking for a specific kind of fish, and these represent all the websites on the Web. Try to imagine the exact fish and describe it in the search box. But to be a smart searcher, you should know some basic shortcuts. Here’s another shortcut.

List of free online resources The following list is meant to help you with your own research, by offering links to respectable information sources on the web, available free of charge. Inclusion on the list doesn't automatically mean the absolute truth is on these websites, so always be critical and compare information between different sources. The content of the subsections is alphabetically organized. Please add free online sources if you know some that are missing in this list, but try to keep it relevant and trustworthy. General resources and link lists[edit] Searching for photographs by content[edit] Resources for sourcing and searching for photographs by the content that is depicted. Newspapers and news agencies[edit] Biographies[edit] Information and library science[edit] Philosophy[edit] Science, mathematics, medicine & nature[edit] Agriculture[edit] Biology and Medicine[edit] Europe PubMed Central - International Pubmed central repositoryPubMed Central Canada - Canadian repository Google.com Math[edit] Nutrition[edit]

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