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Microsoft Bing, hypocritical search

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Microsoft Bing-bang-bungles local search - Computerworld: "Talk about having things both ways! A few months ago in its "Scroogled" ad campaign, Microsoft was complaining about how Google uses your search terms and Gmail contents to deliver targeted ads. Now, Microsoft is touting how Windows 8.1 uses your search terms to deliver targeted ads, even when you're doing searches on local drives."




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How Search Works

Think you can "outsmart" Google (SEO or otherwise)? -- better think again --

How Search Works - The Story – Inside Search – Google: "Our algorithms are constantly changing. These changes begin as ideas in the minds of our engineers. They take these ideas and run experiments, analyze the results, tweak them, and run them again and again."




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TLO hires former LexisNexis exec as new president

TLO hires former LexisNexis exec as new president - South Florida Business Journal: "Boca Raton-based data company TLO has hired a former executive from competitor LexisNexis to be its new president and chief operating officer. It's part of a plan for TLO to exit bankruptcy and become a major force in the data-mining industry."




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Consider the Data you do NOT have

From Nate Silver to government officials to private enterprise CEOs -- everyone loves their data -- but what about the data you don't have? The data one has is limited and incomplete in most situations. If you have the time and other resources, you can try to obtain some (because you will never have "perfect information") of the "missing" data, or proceed with the knowledge that your data is incomplete and may be leading you into making an error in judgment, decision or policy -- therefore always ask, "what data are we missing?" The sad truth is often you don't even know what you don't know.

Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox | TechCrunch: "Make people consider the data they don’t have. In today’s world, product teams have access to an unprecedented set of data on the products that they’ve built. Left to themselves, they will optimize the product around the data they have. But what of the data they don’t have? What about the products and features that need to be built that the customers can’t imagine? Who will make that a priority? The CEO."




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Marissa Mayer says Search far from over

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer: Search is far from over | Internet & Media - CNET News: "Mayer is taking the long view. "Search is far from over," she stated in the interview. "It's physics in the 1600s or biology in the 1800s. There's miles to go before you get to quantum physics or even a microscope. There's a lot of that you can do once you have mobile, and we are going to be very focused on the user experience.""




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Public access, Medicare database

Opinion: Give the public access to the Medicare database - Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Wyden - POLITICO.com: "For no compelling reason, a commanding tool for trying to contain health care costs is lying unused. That sidelined powerhouse is the Medicare claims database, which holds a record of all payments from taxpayers to physicians and other providers for seniors’ health care. If bipartisan legislation now before the Senate becomes law, this information would be made available to all Americans through a free, searchable online database. It would instantly position Americans to secure more value for the $2.7 trillion being spent this year on health services. That’s because the publication of the Medicare data will become health care’s new financial baseline; the measure of what America’s largest and most powerful buyer of health care gets for nearly $600 billion a year."




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Yahoo, E-Commerce App Platform Lexity

Franken-Yahoo No. 19? Yahoo Eyes E-Commerce App Platform Lexity. - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD: "Kumar then left Yahoo again to found Lexity — formerly Vurve — in 2009. According to its website, the startup “will build apps that help merchants with customer acquisition, retention and monetization.” That includes Lexity Live, which offers all kinds of data about store traffic and more. Lexity, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., and also has a labs unit in India, has raised close to $6 million from angel investors like Esther Dyson, Joshua Schachter, Vish Makhijani and Ash Patel and also venture outfits including Spark Capital, True Ventures and 500 Startups."




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Yandex, Ilya Segalovich

Yandex Stock Premium Over Google Swells After Earnings Surprise - Bloomberg: "“Yandex is all about generating money via web searches,” Boris Vilidnitsky, an analyst at Barclays Plc in London, said by phone yesterday. “Its business concept is aimed at making you do all of your web searches without ever leaving the Yandex website. Advertisers are willing to pay a lot for that.” The number of Internet users in Russia is expected to increase to about 65 percent of a population of 143 million people in the next five years, from about half now, Vilidnitsky said. He has a target price of $35.35, implying an 11 percent jump."

Yandex co-founder Ilya Segalovich dies at 48 in London | Russia Beyond The Headlines: "“He was the ‘ideal capitalist’ — earned money with his head and work, was personally involved in charity work and did not fear to openly support political projects,” wrote opposition activist and mayoral candidate Alexei Navalny in his blog. Navalny remembered Segalovich as “the most important pillar of the IT industry in Russia” and commended him for his involvement in making politicians accountable through the creation of a mobile application for election observers. Navalny said that the last time he saw Segalovich was at a May 6 march dedicated to political prisoners. "He came with all modesty, [dressed] in a gray jacket with a hood — fond memory. He was very good,” Navalny wrote in his post."




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Local business data, startup Locationary, Apple

Apple acquires Locationary for local business data--

Apple acquires local business data startup Locationary | Macworld: " . . . . its recent acquisition of Toronto-based Locationary, which the company confirmed to AllThingsD on Friday. Both the startup’s team and the technology are reportedly part of the deal. Locationary is a startup that’s focused on improving data about local businsesses. It pulls location information from a variety of sources, then aggregates and reconciles it, ensuring that the data provided to users is complete and up-to-date. . . ." (read more at link above)





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Big Data Hits Real Life (video)



Big Data Hits Real Life: "Brick-and-mortar stores are looking for a chance to catch up with their online competitors by using software that allows them to watch customers as they shop, and gather data about their behavior."




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