Over at the New Yorker, Ken Auletta has a fascinating piece about the future of publishing as the book world goes digital. Highly recommended if you a Kindle lover, an iPad enthusiast, or a Google watcher (or, like me, all three). The article also describes an unusual battle between book publishers and Amazon about the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
An Unusual Battle Between Amazon and Publishers
Posted in Internet, Microeconomics, tagged Amazon, Apple, Google, Internet on April 21, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Now Available in Dozens of Languages
Posted in Blog Admin, International, Internet, tagged Blogging, Google, International on March 17, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Good news for international readers: Thanks to Google Translate, you can now read this blog in several dozen languages. Just click on the language you want in the box to the right. (For those of you reading this via email, Google Reader, etc., here are some example links: German and Spanish.) P.S. Kudos to the WordPress [...]
Google’s Public Data: Much Improved
Posted in Data, Internet, tagged Data, Google, unemployment, Visualization on March 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Google recently released some major improvements in its public data efforts. If you click on over to Public Data, you will find a much broader range of data sets including economic information from the OECD and World Bank, key economic statistics for the United States, and some education statistics for California. Google has also included [...]
Google and Me, Part II
Posted in Blog Admin, Internet, tagged Blogging, Google, Internet on November 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
My existential crisis is over. As of last Thursday, Google is again including this blog in its search results. So, welcome to all the new readers who’ve come here after Googling information on the Eggo shortage and the debate about whether kids should get one H1N1 shot or two. This is probably of interest only [...]
Insight on Google and Unemployment
Posted in Data, Macroeconomics, Technology, tagged Data, Google, Search, unemployment on September 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In a series of posts (here, here, and here), I have expressed concern that Google directs its users to what I think is the “wrong” measure of unemployment. For example, if you search for “unemployment rate United States” today, it will tell you that the U.S. unemployment rate in August was 9.6%, when the actual [...]
Google and Me
Posted in Blog Admin, Data, Internet, tagged Blogging, Google, Internet, Search, unemployment on September 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A strange this happened last week: Google misplaced my blog. I’ve run all the usual diagnostics, and I can confirm that Google still knows that my blog exists. But it no longer appears in any of the searches – e.g., “natural gas price”, “unemployment”, “budget deficit”, or “brooke boemio” – that used to help new [...]
Google Is Still Wrong About Unemployment
Posted in Data, Economy, Macroeconomics, Technology, tagged Bing, Data, Google, jobs, Macroeconomics, Microsoft, Search, unemployment, Wolfram Alpha on August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Everyone who follows the U.S. economy closely knows that the unemployment rate was 9.4% in July, down 0.1% from June. Everyone, that is, except Google. If you ask Google (by searching for ”unemployment rate United States“), it will tell you the unemployment rate in July was 9.7%. What’s going on? Well, it turns out that Google is directing users to [...]
Bing Bounces Onto Yahoo
Posted in Internet, Regulation, Technology, tagged Antitrust, Google, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday’s deal between Microsoft and Yahoo is a big boost for Bing. Microsoft’s new engine will power search on Yahoo, raising its visibility and, perhaps, eating into Google’s market leadership. If the stock market is any guide, Microsoft is getting the better of the deal. As Techcrunch notes, Yahoo’s stock fell 12% on the day, [...]
Google and Antitrust
Posted in Internet, Regulation, Technology, tagged Antitrust, Google, Microsoft, Regulation, Search, Wired, Wolfram Alpha on July 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The August Wired has a nice article about the increased antitrust scrutiny that Google is facing. (Updated July 28, 2009 I would usually insert a link to the article, but I couldn’t find one online; sorry, but I am working from the dead-tree-and-ink version that the postman dropped off.) Early on, the article notes some ironies [...]
Wolfram Alpha, Unemployment, and the Future of Data
Posted in Data, Internet, Macroeconomics, Technology, tagged Data, Google, jobs, Search, unemployment, Wolfram Alpha on July 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve received a number of helpful responses to my post about the strengths and weaknesses of Google’s efforts to transform data on the web. Reader DD, for example, reminded me that I ought to run the same test on Wolfram Alpha, which I briefly mentioned in my post on Google’s antitrust troubles. Wolfram Alpha is devoting [...]
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