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13 hours ago ago from Mashable!

Want to know Santa's whereabouts this Christmas Eve? Well, Google has you covered. The company has been helping NORAD track the man in red since 2004 the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization had been tackling the task all on its lonesome since 1955, when a Sears and Roebuck magazine ad accidentally instructed readers to call NORAD instead of the real hotline. Well, technology has come a long way since 1955 and since last year, ...

A Fragile Local Maximum for the Web

5 hours ago ago from Information Retrieval Gupf

On Twitter today, Josh Young made an interesting observation to which I would like to call attention: Ya, @jerepick, with attached, google's nav. search as the top of the stack is a fragile local maximum for the web. This observation is a followup to the web-wide discussion that Google kicked off about the meaning of open .  Essentially, Rosenberg says that all of Google's products at that are not at search layers of the stack ...

Google: Being evil

12 hours ago ago from IT Security

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Who's been Naughty and Nice in Search for 2009?

8 hours ago ago from Search Marketing Blog

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