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Goodbye Google Reader

June 17, 2013 – 7:59 am

Tweet  Three months ago, Google announced the “retirement” of Google Reader as part of the company’s second spring cleaning. On July 1st — two weeks from today — the RSS application will be given a gold watch and a farewell lunch, then it will pack up its bits and leave the building for the last [...]

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Google News: The Secret Sauce

February 24, 2013 – 9:00 pm

Tweet  A closer look at Google’s patent for its news retrieval algorithm reveals a greater than expected emphasis on quality over quantity. Can this bias stay reliable over time? Ten years after its launch, Google News’ raw numbers are staggering: 50,000 sources scanned, 72 editions in 30 languages. Google’s crippled communication machine, plagued by bureaucracy [...]

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The Google Fund for the French Press

February 3, 2013 – 8:43 pm

Tweet  At the last minute, ending three months of  tense negotiations, Google and the French Press hammered a deal. More than yet another form of subsidy, this could mark the beginning of a genuine cooperation. Thursday night, at 11:00pm Paris time, Marc Schwartz, the mediator appointed by the French government got a call from the [...]

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Google’s looming hegemony

December 9, 2012 – 10:13 pm

Tweet  If we factor Google geospatial applications + its unique data processing infrastructure + Android tracking, etc., we’re seeing the potential for absolute power over the economy.  Large utility companies worry about Google. Why? Unlike those who mock Google for being a “one-trick pony”, with 99% of its revenue coming from Adwords, they connect the [...]

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The press, Google, its algorithm, their scale

November 4, 2012 – 10:15 pm

Tweet  In their fight against Google, traditional media firmly believe the search engine needs them to refine (and monetize) its algorithm. Let’s explore the facts. The European press got itself in a bitter battle against Google. In a nutshell, legacy media want money from the search engine: first, for the snippets of news it grabs [...]

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Google’s Amazing “Surveywall”

September 9, 2012 – 10:33 pm

Tweet  How Google could reshape online market research and also reinvent micro-payments.  Eighteen months ago — under non disclosure — Google showed publishers a new transaction system for inexpensive products such as newspaper articles. It worked like this: to gain access to a web site, the user is asked to participate to a short consumer [...]

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Samsung vs. Google

January 8, 2012 – 11:04 pm

TweetAndroid is a huge success. Google bought Andy Rubin’s company in 2005 and turned it into a smartphone operating system giant, with more than 50% of the global market and 700,000 activations a day this past December. Perhaps, as Steve Jobs seemed to think, it was Eric Schmidt’s position on Apple’s Board of Directors that [...]

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What If Google Stored All Our Medical Records?

October 17, 2010 – 8:50 pm

TweetRegard the horrified looks on the faces of the attendees at a California Council on Science and Technology meeting in Irvine six or seven years ago. I’m the only member from the Dark Side, from the venture capital milieu, inside an institution “designed to offer expert advice to the state government and to recommend solutions [...]

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Not on the same page. Ever.

December 13, 2009 – 4:12 pm

TweetCould Google and Publishers one day understand each other? Frankly, I doubt it. Two weeks ago I was in Hyderabad for the dual assembly of the World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forums (1). There, Google-bashing was the life of the party. As I told in last week’s Monday Note (see The Misdirected [...]

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The misdirected revolt of the dinosaurs

December 7, 2009 – 9:04 am

TweetThe junkies are rebelling against their dealer. The dope is the traffic, and the dealer is Google. For years, the search giant flooded the market with an ideology built on the early 2000′s, ill-fated, get all eyeballs you can, the rest (i.e. monetization) will take care of itself. Publishers have invested tons of money, energy [...]

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