Search and the Law: Professor Eric Goldman
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As part of a series looking at Internet and intellectual property law, Eric Goldman, assistant professor and director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University, discusses self-service IP enforcement, current search engine lawsuits, and the future of search engine law.
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The first exploitations of Google&#39;s (Nasdaq: GOOG) peculiar search algorithms were humorous, political, or both. I&#39;m referring the once-popular procedure of Google Bombing, a way
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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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These days you can Google just about anything, from your favorite celebrity's pet to your boss's middle name. But using the biggest search engine to get information about the government often falls short.
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By James Ashton  GOOGLE has seen the future - and it's personal. Undeterred by ongoing rows over privacy, Eric Schmidt, boss of the 80bn internet giant, proclaims 'personal search is the next phenomenon'.  By that he means services such as iGoogle, which is 'exploding in use'.
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Well, Murphy&#8217;s Law kicked in this afternoon, and after attempting to disable comments on the original 2006 SEJ Search Blogs Awards post, the entire thing disappeared. Thin air. Poof. Houdini action. We&#8217;re all hoping that Matt Cutts can grab us a cached version of the original page that is newer than this one, but in the event [...]
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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How neuroscience is transforming the legal system.
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Here&#8217;s a nice overview piece &#8212; together with the requisite &#8220;who will win?&#8221; dramatic elements &#8212; from BusinessWeek, covering mobile search:  The emergence of Internet-connected mobile phones, or what&#8217;s known as the Mobile Web, is turning the wireless search business into a horse race&#8212;one that&#8217;s too close to call. Unlike its dominant role in search [...]
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The new search-engine technology is meant to rival Google. Also: Reebok unveils a new version of the Pump & hellip;.  PeopleSoft still won't settle for Oracle's bid & hellip;. and more.
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Internet law professor Michael Geist looks at a copyright clash that could re-write the laws of online life.
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Somehow the search engine defies Wall Street and becomes even more profitable. Also: Study shows that cell phones make us drive like senior citizens & hellip;.  Smartphones get new software and become closer to PDA's & hellip;. and more.
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By WILLIAM REES-MOGG Ten years ago, an American analyst, James Davidson, and I published a book on the prospects for the information age, The Sovereign Individual. When I reread it now, it seems rather a good book, with a number of insights that have proved correct.
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Can small variations in the UK news search engine market produce large variations in the long-term behavior of the worldwide search engine market?
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This interview is the beginning of a series on search engines. We'll briefly look at their history, and delve into some of the techniques of optimizing Web sites for search engines. By Lee Underwood. 0812
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In a new post to his blog today, Stuart Herbert continues the theme he started in a previous post about a business case for PHP. In this new entry, he shares some things he's done to further the effort.   To turn this from an idea into reality, I've setup a Google group where anyone who is interested can join in, and help build this resource. Please come along with your ideas and concerns, and let's see what we can achieve together.   He also suggests some "first steps" to get the ball rolling, namely a list of topics the business case needs to cover.
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Teaching search engines to see Web pages the way people do could improve their performance.