Who Are These Guys?

Since I began the year with a post declaring my bailing on Firefox, I took some interest in yesterday’s post by Steve J. Vaughan-Nichols to his ZDNet Networking blog. It was Vaughan-Nichols who first put the bug in my ear with his data points on...

Not As Web Savvy As You Think

College students trust Google so much that a Northwestern University study has found many students only click on websites that turn up at the top of Google searches to complete assigned tasks. If they don’t use Google, researchers found that students...

Free No More?

Rupert Murdoch has long been looking for a way to drive a stake through the heart of the information-wants-to-be-free vampire. Is Microsoft now offering him that stake? According to a team of Financial Times reporters tracking a common story from...

Google Gets It Wrong About Service

I see that I compared Google to “that small boy with a hammer who sees everything as a nail” back in November of 2007, which is when we saw the first signs of Google’s everything-can-be-reduced-to-search philosophy sticking its nose...