Google, Location Data, Maps

It's all data -- in this case geographic data --

Google’s Road Map to Global Domination - NYTimes.com: "...Rademacher’s mash-up showed Google that the map could be more than just something that people glance at to keep from getting lost. By opening up its map to everyone, Google could perhaps make itself into the one indispensable cog in the giant collaborative computer that was emerging. “HousingMaps was when people realized that making [map] data available to other programmers was incredibly powerful,” O’Reilly says. “Google never looked back.”..." (read more at link above)

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Google uses technology to combat child sexual abuse with search and Youtube changes

Prediction: You will see more and more use of technology by Google and other major IT companies to obstruct, disrupt, and uncover bad actors --

Google to tackle images of child sexual abuse with search and Youtube changes | Technology | The Guardian: "Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has announced that a 200-strong team has cleaned up Google Search to target 100,000 terms that can be used to locate child sexual abuse images. The changes will soon apply to more than 150 languages. The company is also showing warnings at the top of its search results for 13,000 queries."

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User Data, Google Transparent, Governments Opaque

Who reviews the governments' requests as reasonable? To whom are the government agents accountable? As we found out in the case of the US NSA--no accountability is built-in -- secret rubber-stamp Courts, clueless President, dysfunctional Congress, all allow government bureaucrats and snoops to run wild --

Govts’ intense interest in web users’ data doubles in 3 years – Google report — RT News: "The number of government requests for Google user data has increased significantly with the United States topping the list, followed by India, Germany and France, according to a transparency report issued by the American tech giant. The eighth Google Transparency report revealed earlier this week shows figures have more than doubled in the past three years. Since the search giant began sharing the statistics in 2010, requests have rocketed from 12,539 in the last half of 2009 to 25,879 in the first six months of 2013. “This comes as usage of our services continues to grow, but also as more governments have made requests than ever before. And these numbers only include the requests we’re allowed to publish,” the company said in a blog post...."

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Hybrid Intelligence, Human-Machine Collaboration

Machine intelligence as more than just a tool, a partner?

‘Smarter Than You Think,’ by Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com: ". . . The year after his defeat by Deep Blue, Kasparov set out to see what would happen if he paired a machine and a human chess player in a collaboration. Like a centaur, the hybrid would have the strength of each of its components: the processing power of a large logic circuit and the intuition of a human brain’s wetware. The result: human-machine teams, even when they didn’t include the best grandmasters or most powerful computers, consistently beat teams composed solely of human grandmasters or superfast machines . . ."

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Creating a SEO strategy with Webmaster Tools (video)

Creating a SEO strategy (with Webmaster Tools!) Published on Nov 12, 2013
Google's Maile Ohye describes how to create a holistic SEO strategy inclusive of all your company's online channels (website, blog, social media channels). She uses the mock company, Webmaster Central, and pretends to be the SEO manager of the Webmaster Central Blog.

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