Competitive Intel about Google
January 13, 2010
If you are interested in what people say about Google, you will want to become a user of Aqute Intelligence: Google. In addition to being quite helpful, the service is offered without charge and does not have any annoying features. You can scan a list of Aqute’s favorite items. I found the round up of links to the Nexus One an easy way to follow the customer support issues related to the device. One feature that is unique is Google Employees in the News”. You can see the information for the period from December 21, 2009, to January 4, 2010. I find that my work in Google patent applications often requires a quick check to determine if the Google inventor is still in the Google engineering line up. One recent example was a patent document with Anna Patterson’s name. Dr. Patterson founded the Cuil.com system, and I need to see if she had surfaced as a Google employee since her departure. A happy quack to the Aqute team.
Stephen E Arnold, January 13, 2010
Nope, no one paid me to write this. I would like to suggest I did it out of the goodness of my heart, but this is a marketing and sales blog. I will report it to National Cancer Institute anyway.
Google and Its Own Blog Popularity Tally
January 5, 2010
Short honk: If you want to know what was most popular on Google’s own blogs, you will enjoy “Five Years of Google Blogging”. There are a number of interesting factoids in this post, but the one that jumped off the page was that the posts about Chrome, garnered about 2.6 million unique pageviews. The number two post was about Google Wave, Google’s baby dataspace demo, tallied a respectable but less robust pageview count of 639,000. What’s this mean? Well, Microsoft may want to keep its eye on Chrome whether it is as wonderful as Windows 7 and SharePoint or not.
Stephen E. Arnold, January 2, 2010
Another uncompensated post. I am starting 2010 in a most pathetic manner, don’t you agree? I will report this situation to the Coalition Provisional Authority (in Iraq).
Google Press, O Reilly, and a Possible Info Discontinuity
January 4, 2010
Google’s book on HTML5 is moving along. Soon it will be available for sale. At that moment, a seismic shock is triggered in the already Jello like world of traditional publishing. Oh, if you don’t know about the Google Press imprint, you can catch up on your reading by looking at:
- HTML5’s rel=”noreferrer”
- A version of the “book’s title page”
- Mr. Pilgrim’s own statement
For a more robust discussion of the tools Google will use as it solves the copyright problem for new, significant content, check out Google: The Digital Gutenberg, September 2009. Better yet, write me at seaky2000 at yahoo dot com and inquire about a 90 minute briefing on Google’s publishing technology and the disruptions these technologies are likely to let loose in 2010.
First, let me provide some context.
In Google: The Digital Gutenberg I pointed out that Google’s infrastructure works like a digital River Rouge. Put stuff in at one end and things come out the other. The steady progress of Google toward a clean, tidy solution to copyright hassles is for Google to become a publisher. What goes in at one end are content objects and what comes out the other can be just about anything Google can program its manufacturing system to produce.
Now I know that the publishers want Google to [a] quit being Google, which is tough since the Google is little more than a manifestation of technology anybody could have glued together 11 years ago, [b] subsidize publishers so the arbiters of what’s smart and what’s stupid can continue as museum curators of information, and [c] give publishers some of the profits from advertising so publishers can shop for white shoes and vintage motor yachts.
Google uses algorithms like a fishmonger to convert the beastie into tasty, easily sold fillets. Image source: http://www.fishingkites.co.nz/cleaning-fish/filleting_fish/fillet_2.jpg
The solution is simpler. When Google signs up an author, Google offers terms. The author takes the terms or leaves the terms. Now the Google does not go quickly into that good night. The Google takes baby steps. Google has a fondness for Tim O’Reilly, and it supports number of O’Reilly ventures, including the somewhat interesting Government 2.0 conference.
Your Inner Sherlock: People Search Engines
December 31, 2009
Short honk: This write up — “5 Powerful Ways To Google People From Alternative Search Engines” – provides a useful run down of services that focus on “people search”. The idea is a bit like white pages on steroids. The systems provide hits to addresses and phone numbers and some include information from social networking sites. Worth a look. Indulge your amateur detective instincts or just find the phone number of a painter.
Stephen E. Arnold, December 31, 2010
I must disclose that I was not paid to write this. I did weasel some dough from the engaging owner of Gaviri’s universal search system. The ad goes up the first week of January 2010. I will disclose this to the Labor Department (DOL).
IBM Replays Its 1982 Audiotape, We Are Right
December 29, 2009
Lesie P. Norton’s “Smart Play” contains what I call a Microsoft moment. (Note: this link may go dead as part of Rupert Murdoch’s vision for the Web. Subscribe as I do.) I refer to IBM’s licensing of Bill Gates’s outstanding disc operating system. This decision set off a chain of events that involved a possible suicide, the reshaping of the computing industry, and the shift at IBM from a technology company to a technology consulting company. (Just my opinion, IBM PR professional. Please, don’t call me for a briefing.) Now “Smart Play” seems to have documented another interesting point in IBM’s competitive assessment heartbeat. Here’s the passage that caught my attention:
Google paranoia: “Is Google [GOOG] going to become the computing platform for the enterprise? Is a bank going to run itself on Google? Is an airline going to run itself on Google? Is IBM going to run its supply chain on Google? Is Bharti Wireless going to run themselves on Google? Is the banking system of China that we’ve built going to be on Google? Is the Russian Central Bank [network] that we’re building going to be on Google? No. The exchanges we’re building? No.”
No. Got it. Should I outline the conditions under which any of these outfits will shift from IBM to another vendor? No, I don’t need another IBM PR call. I will add this quote to the folder that contains the letter I received that suggests IBM knows exactly what Google is doing. Like pressed flowers in a year book for me. There is a post from SearchEngineLand.com, but that misspells IBM’s top dog’s name. Well, spelling is for dweebs , right? Details, details.
Stephen E. Arnold, December 29, 2009
I was not paid to write this. I must report this fact to the Securities & Exchange Commission when everyone returns to work on Monday, well, maybe Tuesday. If there’s snow, maybe next year?
AOL 2010 Unveiled
December 26, 2009
Short honk: I must admit I was surprised to learn how AOL will position itself in 2010. An organization that converted Relegence.com into Love.com has deeper thoughts than I. Navigate to Business Insider and read “AOL Is Just as Much a Journalistic Organization as The New York Times.” If you are a new media enthusiast, you can listen to a podcast in which the secret plans for AOL are disclosed. Here’s the stunner:
AOL is just as much a journalistic organization as The New York Times, as Bloomberg, as NBC News, as all kinds of organizations new and old.
Okay. The ambiguity in this statement is as delicious as it rhetorical halo.
Stephen E. Arnold, December 26, 2009
Oyez, oyez, I was not paid to point out this secret. Nevertheless I will do my duty because the Central Intelligence Agency needs to know this fact about a company so, so close to the “special” landing area at Dulles Airport. You never know, do you?
Need an IBM Mainframe Specialist
December 25, 2009
A happy quack to the reader who pointed out a tweet that in turn pointed to the IBM Web site’s list of people on the “Master the Mainframe Content 2009” page. If you are looking for someone in a university who might be available to assist you with your mainframe challenges, check out the list. There are no hot links to the people, but the individual and his / her institution is provided. With that information, I was able to locate the three folks I selected at random. I pass this along because there is a perception that no youngsters know anything about the IBM mainframe. IBM is doing what it can to keep electricity flowing to the iron lungs. If you have STAIRS III, you may want to download and save this list for reference in 2010.
Stephen E. Arnold, December 25, 2009
I was not paid to write about IBM and its potential mainframe enthusiasts. I suppose I should report this fact to the Science Office (Energy Department). I think that group might have some mainframe affection.
Algorithms Get Their Own Patent SAT
December 25, 2009
“New Patent Test for Machines using Mathematical Algorithms” is worth a read if you are interested in patent applications. I am no attorney, but when I take a gander at patent applications created by and for outfits like Google, there are quite a few numerical recipes in these publications. Erik Sherman’s write up explains:
there’s a newly published decision from the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences that establishes a new test to determine whether a machine or manufactured article that depends on a mathematical algorithm is patentable. The ruling is a big deal because it’s one of the few precedential decisions that the BPAI issues in a given year, and it will have a direct impact on patents involving computers and software.
There is some legal jargon in the write up, but for me the bottom-line is that an already interesting process is probably to become more interesting in 2010.
Stephen E. Arnold, December 25, 2009
This is an easy one. The write up was done without anyone giving me so much as a piece of finsk broed. I will report this sad circumstance to the Marketing and Regulatory Programs (Agriculture Department), an outfit with jurisdiction over Web log posts with a nourishing item of information within their letters and words.
Search Lemma Two
December 23, 2009
Another lemma for the search and content processing crowd:
Search generally delivers data. Search may deliver information. Search never delivers knowledge.
Stephen E. Arnold, December 22, 2009
A freebie. Who’s on first today? Oh, yes, I must report this to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Medical online information is an excellent way to test this lemma.
Preliminary List of Beyond Search Evaluated Social Search Systems
December 23, 2009
The goslings and I had some disagreements about what to include and what to exclude. If you read my column in Incisive Media’s Information World Review, I have mentioned many of these systems. In London earlier this month a person asked me to run a table of the social search systems. I anticipate that a large number of azure chip consultants, poobahs, satraps, and SEO mavens will have a field day recycling these links. The addled goose is too old and too disinterested to honk much about short cuts.
As with our list of European enterprise search vendors, we will add to this list over time. I will not include my ratings for each system in this list. I have not decided about using my goose ratings as part of the Overflight service or one of the listings on my archive Web site. If you don’t agree with a site’s inclusion or if you have a site to suggest, use the comments section of the Web log. There will be some weird breaks and spacing issues. WordPress often baffles me with its handling of table code. If the breaks annoy you, the addled goose says, “Create your own list.” Honk.
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