IN a move that’s been expected by web-watchers for a while, Google has made changes to the way their search engine ranks sites that will severely ding so-called content farms, sites designed to resemble information-filled sites on various topics but that, in reality, are designed merely to snag the interest of key-word searching search engines. [...]
A restless giant stretches… the Google Home…
Now that Google has, from a number of angles, pretty successfully created a sort of laissez faire, open source Project Xanadu (the grand dream of computer-use visionary Ted Nelson, which Wired once called the longest running vaporware project in history, a universal information system envisioned by Nelson beginning in 1960 but never really practically implemented, [...]