Category Archives: Search Engines

As I’ve discussed in previous articles, there are more than 5 trillion pages on the web, and we estimate Google indexes >50 billion of them. There is NO algorithm that will allow Google to identify the best or most useful … Read the rest of this entry →

Posted on December 31, 2012
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Brian GreerGoogle Becomes a Teenager

Posted on September 4, 2011
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Sept 4, 1998 Alta Vista reigns supreme as a search engine. Yahoo dominates the directory world. AOL appears impregnable, and is still two years away from a valuation of $166 Billion dollars at the Time-Warner merger date. IBM releases a … Read the rest of this entry →

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Brian GreerThe Medium is the Message

Posted on July 21, 2011
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As a teenager, I first encountered the writings of Marshal McLuhan. His books took me on an adventure…, imagining that society was formed by its mediums of expression. People didn’t use a typewriter, they were typed. Like Joyce in Ulysses, … Read the rest of this entry →

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Brian GreerApril 11 – Mark the Date

Posted on June 8, 2011
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An important date in the history of the World Web has come and gone and almost no one noticed. How did it get missed? On February 24th, Google rolled out the Panda update. Amidst great howls of pain and gnashing … Read the rest of this entry →

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