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Google Is Still Wrong About Unemployment

Posted in Data, Economy, Macroeconomics, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , , 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 the wrong data [...]

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Google and Antitrust

Posted in Internet, Regulation, Technology, tagged , , , , , , 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 of [...]

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Wolfram Alpha, Unemployment, and the Future of Data

Posted in Data, Internet, Macroeconomics, Technology, tagged , , , , , 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 enormous [...]

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Google’s Defense

Posted in Internet, Regulation, tagged , , , , , , on June 7, 2009 | 4 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.

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