personal search history
A world where your every moment is recorded is coming
News History by some definitions began when people started recording things, and the Total Recall era of Bell and Gemmell has the potential to bring as radical a shift in human behaviour as the arrival of books. [21 Sep 2009]
Facebook Fans can now Twitter their updates
News But Facebook and Twitter have a complicated history. Facebook continues to roll out Twitter-inspired features like a revamped search engine, a "publisher" tool that can make status updates selectively... [24 Aug 2009]
Inbox: Chip and PIN latest big IDea - and still no readers
Comment So 49 items of personal information, your life history and your biometric data are not judged to be secure methods of verifying your identity anymore? The recession has led many IT leaders to... [20 Apr 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth
Comment Our entire history of growth and success has been founded on a high-wire act that teeters between misconception and deception. There are hundreds of lesser-known examples, plus those amalgamating and federated... [31 Mar 2008]
Google: Personalisation is the future
News Mayer said one of the most important data points for improving search relevance based on personalisation is the previous query, although web history and address books could also be helpful "signals" to... [23 Aug 2007]
Privacy screw tightened at Microsoft, Yahoo!
News Last week, Ask said it would allow people to search anonymously and would not retain a user's web search history at all if the searcher didn't want it to. In addition, Microsoft is... [23 Jul 2007]
Crime pays - and pays very well in cyberspace
Comment I would say that we have reached - or passed - a critical point in the history of the internet. The goal of the event is to search for new ideas, partnerships and solutions in the fight against the... [07 Mar 2007]
JFK files: Presidential archives to be put online
News The archives of the Kennedy Presidential Library's research facilities currently include more than 8.4 million pages of the personal, congressional and presidential papers of JFK, along with more than 40 million pages of... [12 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.01.06
Round-Up Not when there's money to be made and history books to be rewritten. They know who they are and the irony here is that they actually run perhaps the least regularly updated blog in the history of lapsed... [27 Jan 2006]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Bill Gates
News He lobbied the world's political leaders at the Davos economic summit and then shared the stage with U2 frontman Bono and other rock stars at the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park this summer, where the software billionaire addressed... [08 Sep 2005]
Google finally arrives at query history party
News Google is offering people custom accounts to search over their personal query history, in a move to outdo rivals and endear themselves to web surfers. The search king on... [21 Apr 2005]
Has Amazon patented casual sexism?
News Last month the USPTO published Amazon's application for a patent on "Server architecture and methods for persistently storing and serving event data", which describes the "personal search... [10 Mar 2005]
Google desktop search leaves beta era
News The final version, in public beta for nearly five months, now includes search capabilities for video and music files, full PDFs and web surfing history in three web browsers, including the fast-growing... [07 Mar 2005]
Firefox readies next moves
News The way it is now, a browser's bookmarks, cache, history and email reader present the desktop search application with a wide array of APIs (application programming interfaces) to negotiate. Companies... [10 Nov 2004]
Google squares up to Microsoft
News Google on Thursday unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files on the PC and through a person's web history, a move that could shake up the landscape of... [14 Oct 2004]
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