Google as spin doctor
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Blog: Google blogger says health care industry should counter negative attention from Michael Moore's Sicko documentary by buying ads from Google.
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IF you can't decide if you're indecisive or not... help is at hand. Well, it will be in a few years' time.   By 2012 Google should have the technology in place to analyse every bit of information you type into the search engine.
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The irony that during the Search Engine Strategies Show, which is sponsored by Search Engine Watch and hosted by Danny Sullivan, that Mr. Sullivan uses the opportunity to spin off his own new Search Engine Land blog and new conference Search Engine Expo, is amazing. Although I have not heard Danny officially discuss his new ventures [...]
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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WASHINGTON _ Slowly but surely, the government is getting Googled.  Two years ago, the Google staff in Washington was one person _ Alan Davidson, an expert in technology law.
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Experts see Google partnering with a handset maker for bundled software that will enable everything from IM and maps to monitoring blood pressure.Image: Looking for clues in Google patent
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When Randall C. Jimerson, the president of the Society of American Archivists, heard of Google&#39;s plan to convert certain holdings at Oxford University and at some of the leading research
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Vegetarian giant to eat more data, weigh less Google is getting its ducks in a row for its push into medical information. The advertising broker has rounded up a herd of healthcare policy-types to advise it on medical matters.â¦
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Google is developing an online publishing platform where people can write entries on subjects they know, an idea thatâs close to Wikipediaâs user-contributed encyclopedia.
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Software giant makes bid in an attempt to challenge growing might of Google
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Is Google launching its wiki and presentation services this week? All signs point to yes.
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Google leads the charge of indexing information outside the web as it turns to TV. Also: Video-game maker Take Two buys a chunk of Sega & hellip;.  Google hiring practices raise eyebrows and speculations on future projects & hellip;. and more.
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My friend Brian Smith of Comparison Engines and SingleFeed is currently running a promotion for Search Engine Journal readers to help them submit nd optimize their shopping cart feed for free to Froogle / Google Base. Cyber Monday is only 10 days away.  If you&#8217;re not up on the shopping comparison engines, you&#8217;re potentionally [...]
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(InfoWorld) - Google has lost the services of Adam Bosworth, a vice president of engineering who was in charge of the company's Google Health project, focused on helping people research medicines, illnesses, treatments and related healthcare topics. "Adam is a great talent and was instrumental in starting Google Health. He is now on vacation and has decided to pursue other opportunities after that," Google spokesman Steve Langdon said. Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, will step in to oversee the Google Health team on an interim basis until a permanent replacement for Bosworth is found. His departure will not detract from the company's efforts in the health space, the company said. "Google is moving forward with work on our health products," Langdon wrote. Google Health hasn't yet yielded a specific service or product. However, in August, The New York Times reported that Google has shown a Google Health prototype to health professionals. According to the Times, the Google Health prototype is geared at consumers and designed to let people create a health profile for themselves that includes information about medications and conditions. Google Health also features a "health guide" with suggested treatments and drug interaction warnings, pages with health-related reminders and health provider directories, the Times reported. Google has given regular updates about the Google Health efforts. In March, Bosworth authored a blog post in which he outlined a series of issues and concerns related to finding and trusting health information on the Internet. "There is a lot of material out there about drugs, diseases, procedures, and treatments. How do you know what is trustworthy and what isnât? Search is great at finding us places with relevant information, but it is hard to know which links are reliable and which are less so. Honestly, this is a hard problem," he wrote. In June, Google announced the formation of the Google Health Advisory Council. In that blog posting, a Google official explained: "We want to help users make more empowered and informed healthcare decisions, and have been steadily developing our ability to make our search results more medically relevant and more helpful to users." Bosworth was BEA Systems' chief architect and senior vice president of advanced development when he joined Google in July 2004 in what was at the time seen as a recruitment coup for the search company. Bosworth arrived at BEA in 2001 when BEA bought Crossgain, a company he co-founded. Prior to founding Crossgain, Bosworth worked at Microsoft as a senior manager, and managed Microsoft's XML program between 1997 and 1999. Bosworth's departure follows the announcement in late August thatÂ Google's CFO, George Reyes, will retire from the company by the end of the year.
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What do Stanford grads Anand and Venky have in common with Google founders, Larry and Sergie? One, they were batch mates. And two, they are into the prolific and perhaps most competitive of web domains, Search. Kosmix.com, the topical search engine, founded by the Indian duo attempts to resolve the Gordian knot of &#8220;meaning&#8221; in a [...]
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FINDING your ideal job could soon be as simple as asking Google.   The Internet search engine plans to collect personal data on users so it can advise them on everything from which position to apply for, to how they should spend their days off.
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Blog: Google just picked up Zenter, a presentation creation service.