A sign of our modern Google times – a liberal Democrat writer gets ‘googled’ by her conservative Republican parents, only to have one of her old news articles come back to haunt her and ignite a family feud. When the writer mocked her Republican parents in an old news column, she never dreamed her mother […]
AZ Central has a great article on the growing popularity of “social search” engines that are created and edited by human users instead of computer algorithms and spiders. Many people believe that these social search engines return more relevant search results because they are edited by human users instead of ranking algorithms. From the article […]
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USA Today has published a lengthy and informative article on the tactics and personal privacy problems associated with “data mining” – the growing practice used by both government and business of using modern technology and software to create detailed personal profiles of citizens and consumers by recording their behavior and saving it for analysis in […]
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Users of MySpace, FaceBook and other social networking sites should think about the content and pictures they are posting online. You are literally creating an online public record of yourself and your actions that more and more employers and education institutions are using to do background research on you. A recent article by Matt Annerino […]
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A recent Reuters article discusses the phenomenal growth of the MySpace social networking web site, which is now ranked in the No. 1 spot among all U.S. web sites, topping even Yahoo! and Google. From the article — Online teen hangout MySpace.com ranked as the No. 1 U.S. Web site last week, displacing Yahoo Inc.’s […]
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