Saving the Whales, Google style

For those of you who have not been swayed by emotional appeals to save the (insert cute cuddly creature here), some researchers may have an answer to quantifying what species are most important to each ecosystem, via ripping off Google pagerank:

“While several previous studies have looked at the robustness of food webs to a [...]

Yahoo Finance is Fun

When it comes to following the markets, Yahoo beats out the competition.  Yahoo Finance has 21.7 million visitors a month, #1 in the category.  What’s most intersting is the author’s attribution of Yahoo’s success to using psychology to balance information and entertainment, whereas Google is all information, no fun.

It seems unlikely, however, that Google’s [...]

Secrets From the School of Googlenomics

Witness the birth of Google, the business giant:

Veach and Kamangar argued that all the ad slots should be auctioned off. In search, Google had already used scale, power, and clever algorithms to change the way people accessed information. By turning over its sales process entirely to an auction-based system, the company could similarly upend [...]

Google Wave will change the world

Google wave is an upcoming product from google.  It will change the way we communicate and collaborate over the internet.  Even if you don’t use it, its presence will force others to innovate.  Sharepoint is dead – this does everything sharepoint does, but much much better and easier.   Start at 3 minutes, watch till at least [...]