Zanran is a new search engine, now in beta testing, that focuses on charts and tables. As its website says: Zanran helps you to find ‘semi-structured’ data on the web. This is the numerical data that people have presented as graphs and tables and charts. For example, the data could be a graph in a [...]
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Zanran: Google for Data?
Posted in Data, Economy, Internet, tagged Data, Google, Search, Wolfram Alpha, Zanran on May 13, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Curation versus Search
Posted in Internet, Technology, tagged Curation, Google, Search, Twitter on January 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I love Twitter (you can find me at @dmarron). Indeed, I spend much more time perusing my Twitter feed than I do on Facebook. But it’s not because I care about Kanye West’s latest weirdness (I followed him for about eight hours) or what Katy Perry had for lunch. No, the reason I love Twitter is that [...]
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 [...]
Follow-up: Defense, Mortgage Modifications, and Yahoo/Microsoft
Posted in Budget, Economy, Finance, Internet, Macroeconomics, Politics, Regulation, Technology, tagged Antitrust, Budget, Defense, Finance, Microsoft, Mortgage, Politics, Search, Yahoo on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning’s headlines include some important follow-ups to recent posts: I recently cheered the Obama administration’s success (so far) in fighting off excess spending on the F-22 fighter. However, business-as-usual is still the rule in Washington, as the Washington Post reports that the House will soon vote on a defense appropriations bill that is loaded [...]
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, [...]
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