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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Google’
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 »
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 [...]
Google, Unemployment, and the Future of Data
Posted in Data, Internet, Macroeconomics, Technology, tagged Data, Google, jobs, Macroeconomics, Search, unemployment on July 8, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Google may eventually solve the problem of finding data on the web. Too bad its first effort reports the wrong numbers for unemployment. Since leaving public service, I have occasionally pondered whether to start a company / organization to transform the way that data are made available on the web. The data are out there, [...]
Linkfest
Posted in Auctions, Budget, Finance, Health, Regulation, tagged Antitrust, Arbitrage, Auction, Budget, Citigroup, Google, Health, Regulation, Search, Stock Market, TARP, Venture Capital, Warrants on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some good items elaborating on topics I’ve discussed in the past week: Paul Kedrosky says that the U.S. Venture Capital industry needs to shrink – by 50%. [my latest post on this] SubsidyScope presents some cool visualizations of the TARP money and other bailouts. (ht: Marcus Peacock in the comments) [latest post] Barrons analyzes the [...]
Google’s Defense
Posted in Internet, Regulation, tagged Antitrust, Bing, Google, Microsoft, Regulation, Search, Wolfram Alpha on June 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Google will likely face close scrutiny from the Obama administration. Indeed, it is already the subject of at least three separate antitrust reviews. Here are three ways Google will try to defend itself.
Google: Master of the Auction
Posted in Auctions, Internet, tagged Auction, Google, Search, Wired on May 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
People usually think of eBay as the master auctioneer of the internet age. As this month’s Wired points out, however, Google is the real master.
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