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Four Things You Should Know About Google’s Upcoming ‘Semantic Search’
March 28, 2012
‘Smarter’ might not be the right term, but the search engine giant will update its algorithm over the next few months to make Google.com more ‘human’ (insert obligatory reference to Skynet here). Last week, Google announced its plans to embed ‘Semantic Search’ capabilities (through a new system called a ‘Knowledge Graph’) that will help the search engine understand the context of normal human language to provide better results. For those of you out there with an iPhone 4S, this should sound familiar. It’s what Apple did with its Siri assistant and it feels like it’s More >
Do Google and Wikipedia look funny to you today?
January 18, 2012
Until today, have you heard of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA)? It’s not surprising if you haven’t. Unless you read the tech blogs, you probably didn’t come across a story about in your morning news scan. But, if you use the Internet in almost any way, then it’s time to pay attention.
SOPA and PIPA are two bills currently pending Congressional approval. If passed into law, they would criminalize the posting or linking of just a few unauthorized pieces of copyrighted content a month. Meaning possible jail time. In addition to the site being blocked by the More >