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With Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist, You Won’t Learn Much. Why?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Imagine if Google took its massive search query database and worked with some of the leaders in the open data movement to mine true insights? I honestly do not care what top ten TV Shows, Sports Stars, Songs, or even People we collectively care about, because there is *never* a surprise in those results. What is SOPA. What is KONY.

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Google Responds: No,That’s Not How Facebook Deal Went Down (Oh, And I Say: The Search Paradigm Is Broken)

John Battelle's Searchblog

This firehose data is what Google would need in order to surface personal Facebook pages relevant to you in the context of a search query. (So, Starbucks , for example, is more than happy to let anyone see its Facebook page, no matter if you’re logged in or not. Google balked. Or Instagram? Or Path, for that matter?

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Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily

Krebs on Security

” A sample of some of the most frequent search queries made in a single day by the gift card gang against more than 50,000 hacked inboxes. According to Bill, the fraudsters aren’t downloading all of their victims’ emails: That would quickly add up to a monstrous amount of data. .”

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

The FCC made sure you couldn’t go full George Carlin in your creative execution, for example. AdWords worked best when you used it directly on Google’s site — because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. The FTC made sure you couldn’t commit fraud.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

The FCC made sure you couldn’t go full George Carlin in your creative execution, for example. that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. And the FEC?—?that’s

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

The FCC made sure you couldn’t go full George Carlin in your creative execution, for example. that’s the regulatory body responsible for insuring fairness and transparency in paid political speech?—?the because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. And the FEC?—?that’s