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Legal Action against bloggers

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Anyone have experience with a company threatening legal action over what you wrote on a blog? I got a call today from a company attorney saying I must remove a certain page from my blog because it is libelous and because it appears on the first page of Google’s rankings. They said they [...]

Moving on…

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Well, after 3+ years at CNLP (Center for Natural Language Processing), I am leaving to join a startup. I must say it has been a lot of fun working with so many good people on so many interesting projects and I wish them all the best of luck in the future.
I will post more [...]

Google seeks to extend Microsoft antitrust decree - Yahoo! News

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Google seeks to extend Microsoft antitrust decree - Yahoo! News
Does anyone get the feeling that in a few years Google is going to be on the other end of this equation?

Google Is Big Brother

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Google Is Big Brother
I’ve been getting this feeling more and more lately.   The thing is Yahoo! results are pretty much as good as Google’s, but their search page is so cluttered with other junk, that I don’t always want to go there.  I am, however, getting ready to make Yahoo! my default search.

Ask.com Web Search

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Ask.com Web Search
OK, so we keep hearing about all the new things Ask.com is up to (like Ask3D), but, in my opinion, they still are missing the key thing: quality results. I don’t care how pretty the look and feel is if I can’t rely on the results.
Try, for instance, a search on Ask.com [...]

Google the Monopoly?

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

The European Union has been going after Apple over the iPod, claiming it is a monopoly because it owns some 60+ percent of the market.  This got me wondering about what other companies own 60+ % of the market in the software industry.  They have already taken on Microsoft, so that leaves me with Google.
Now, [...]