Why saving data isn’t always good
I understand that you need to save some data in order to make sure your business functions. For example, I can understand why Google needs to log what searches are performed and so on. But it makes me nervous that Google (and Yahoo, and probably many of the other search engines) associate that data with [...]
When algorithms go bad
Chris Pirillo points out a funny little quirk in Google’s Adsense results. Interestingly, if you Google “miserable failure“, they have enough sense to make their first Adsense ad Why these results?. So at least they’re not oblivious.
Bork, bork, bork!
OK, one more language-related post. I just couldn’t let this go. Google is available in dozens of languages. In fact, if they don’t have your language, you can volunteer as a translator, and once you’ve translated enough of the page, they’ll add it. Apparently someone has translated Google into “Bork, bork, bork!”, which as far [...]