How to Use Google Search More Effectively. Josh Catone

"Here's a helpful infographic primer for how to best structure Google searches using advanced operators to more quickly and accurately drill down to the information you want. This is by no means an exhaustive list of search operators and advanced techniques, but it’s a good start that will help set you on the path to becoming a Google master."


Source: Mark Perry.

From page 4 of Alan Reynold’s 2006 book Income and Wealth

The two young founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, quickly made something like $12 billion each by greatly facilitating our information, education, and shopping efficiency.  Why should anyone care how much money the founders of Google, Apple, or Microsoft made?  Some might object that they earned a larger share of income, but in what sense can we regard their income as shared?  Google is something new – without Google there could be no income for Google.  The Google founders have their income and you have yours.  What they earn has nothing to do with how much or how little you can earn, except that their inventions may help you earn more (personally, I feel as though I owe them a really big check).

Source: Cafe Hayek.

How Google's Self-Driving Car Works

Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion, even inviting people to ride inside one of the robot cars as it raced around a closed course.

Google's fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now logged more than 190,000 miles (about 300,000 kilometers), driving in city traffic, busy highways, and mountainous roads with only occasional human intervention. The project is still far from becoming commercially viable, but Google has set up a demonstration system on its campus, using driverless golf carts, which points to how the technology could change transportation even in the near future.

Read full in Discovery News.

El algoritmo de la vanidad. Arcadi Espada

Entre el contenido cedido destacan, claro, las noticias que alimentan Google News. Inmediatamente pensé en esas noticias, cuando lo de Zagat. Imagínate que Zagat hubiese cedido su contenido a Google, en vez de cobrarle 200 millones. Lo que, de algún modo, hicieron los periódicos en los albores de internet. No sólo con Google. También con sus lectores.

Durante mucho tiempo se resistieron a hacer gratuita su página, y a ponerla, en consecuencia, al servicio de Google. Hasta que Google ha tenido que comprarla. Irresistible moraleja.

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