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October 7, 2006
Business Week's Kate Norton interviewed Microsoft Vice President Robert McDowell and me about the role of information technology in business following a debate we had in London earlier this week.
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October 2, 2006
Richard MacManus notes the emergence of a marketplace for buying and selling Digg votes.
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October 1, 2006
Noting the continuing decay in the quality of algorithm-generated search results - the current top Google result for a search on "Martin Luther King," for example, is a page created by white supremacists - CNET's Elinor Mills suggests that parents should encourage their kids to consult librarians instead of search engines when doing research. Bizarrely, a Google spokesperson defends the King result as an example of the "integrity" of the company's algorithm: "In this particular example, the page is relevant to the query and many people have linked to it, giving it more PageRank than some of the other pages."
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