Airbnb has often been thought of as a platform for users to find a room or apartment with local flavor for their next vacation, but onstage Tuesday at Street Fight Summit… Read more »
A new right to remove results from Google poses hard choices for Europe. It offers people a chance to forget and start over, but also recalls the continent’s early efforts to… Read more »
Google, Facebook and Amazon have shown us again this week why the combination of a quasi-monopoly, vested interests and an inscrutable algorithm can be a dangerous thing for internet users, since… Read more »
Metafilter, a pioneering online community, has been forced to lay off almost half of its moderation staff and is on financial life support after its traffic from Google suddenly declined by… Read more »
Russia’s new Kremlin-friendly search engine Sputnik – planned since last year — reportedly achieved lift-off on Thursday. As spotted by Tech.eu on Wednesday and confirmed to me today by local sources,… Read more »
A class action complaint says Google uses secret deals to force Samsung and others to make its search engine the default choice on mobile devices, which in turn harms consumers by… Read more »
Airbnb is exploring a way to match its hosts with users based on more sophisticated metrics, which the company calls “matchmaking.” Here’s how this concept can improve the sharing economy as… Read more »
Apple Maps may be getting a little better at finding what you want thanks to a recent new hire. The company gained Benoit Dupin, former VP of Amazon’s A9 search team. Read more »
Science magazine last week published an analysis of the errors and limitations in Google Flu Trends, the flu trend analysis that Google generates from its search engine traffic; and news stories… Read more »
The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), a powerful lobby group that already had observer status in Google’s antitrust case, has applied to become a full-blown complainant, putting paid to any idea of… Read more »