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“Privacy as we’ve known it is ending”…really? Only for some
The following NY Times article floated into my in-box via CB Insights’ newsletter – CB Insights is one of the leading VC and start-up online sources, and has a very lively newsletter! I hope CB Insights’ editor won’t mind me … Continue reading
An interview with the Google founders – worth a read
Disruptive Searcher’s in the middle of many things at the moment, but I’d like to pause for a brief moment from the frenetic world of work to slurp tea and highlight this article from The Guardian: Google’s founders on the future of … Continue reading
Oy, don’t make my life so searchable! Who said that? Um, I’ve forgotten
Disruptive Searcher’s been rather too quiet. Odd, since there are so many topics she could/should be covering at present. To start with there’s the high profile more-than-somewhat disruptive debate around the recent “right to be forgotten” ruling and what Google … Continue reading
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Tagged Big data, Business and management, Censorship, Featured sites, Future of search, Google, Information literacy, Mentality of search, People searching
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Welcome revisions to copyright law
Wow, it’s taken a while, but some helpful and long-called-for changes to copyright law have been made. It’s not really seen as an exciting topic of conversation (try introducing it at a party some time: “nice background music, good quality … Continue reading
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Yippee, it’s the company results conference season!
Many companies report their results at this time of year and one way that the public companies do this is through conferences. Two such examples are the annual CAGNY event – Consumer Analyst Group of New York and the Citi … Continue reading
Understanding the deluge that is big data
This is a rather belated (shameless) plug, for a feature article, Making sense of the deluge that is Big Data, that I wrote for the excellent resource that is Freepint back in August, but if you’re not a Freepint subscriber … Continue reading
UK scientific research papers to be “open access”
It’s official. The report by Dame Janet Finch, mentioned in an earlier post, The open access train is getting up a head of steam, has recommended that papers describing publicly funded research should be made available to read for free by … Continue reading
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The open access train is getting up a head of steam
Back in April we had the announcement that the Wellcome Trust, one of the largest funders of medical research, had launched a free online platform to distribute academic papers. As the Financial Times pointed out, this could really shake things … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic, Copyright, Future of search, Mentality of search, Science
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It was never meant to be like this…
For some time there have been murmurings that the Internet’s days (in its current form) are numbered. It can’t be left much longer in its current state with IT experts constantly patching up security code in order to keep one … Continue reading
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