See how the US, Canada, UK, Australia & New Zealand view themselves and each other via Google Search suggestions.
Fascinating.
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Google Pays Apple $1 Billion A Year To Be Default Search Provider On iOS
It is really not much more complicated than this:
Google Pays Apple $1 Billion A Year To Be Default Search Provider On iOS.
$1 Billion a year to be Apple’s search default. So, I guess there is money to be made in search (and retrieval)…
…if you are Apple.
Google Pays Apple $1 Billion A Year To Be Default Search Provider On iOS [Report] | Cult of Mac.
Scanning whole books is fair use
Worth knowing (and maybe worth celebrating, at least a little bit):
A landmark fair use ruling: a judge in the Southern District Court of New York has ruled that Google’s program of scanning books for libraries, and giving them copies to use for full-text search is fair use. The suit was brought by the Authors’ Guild against the Hathitrust Digital Library, which holds the digital books for the library.
Real-Life Examples Of How Google’s “Search Plus” Pushes Google+ Over Relevancy
Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land says:
The new Google “Search Plus Your World†feature — which I’m now simply calling “Search Plus†— has just gone live for me. Huge debate erupted yesterday over whether it somehow favors Google+. I can see now that it clearly does, even more than I thought.
So be very aware, please.
Real-Life Examples Of How Google’s “Search Plus” Pushes Google+ Over Relevancy.
Search Google using your terms, ‘verbatim’ search
From Google’s own Search blog:
Behind the simplicity of Google search is a complex set of algorithms that expands and improves the query you’ve typed to find the best results. Automatic spelling correction ([vynal] to “vinylâ€) and substituting synonyms (matching [pictures] to “photosâ€) are just two examples of the improvements we make.
In most cases, Google’s algorithms make things better for our users – but in some rare cases, we don’t find what you were looking for…
Since then, we’ve received a lot of requests for a more deliberate way to tell Google to search using your exact terms. We’ve been listening, and starting today you’ll be able to do just that through verbatim search. With the verbatim tool on, we’ll use the literal words you entered without making normal improvements…
You can access the verbatim search tool under “More search tools†on the left-hand side.