How Google’s Interest Based Ads Work

In the following video Google’s “Business Product Manager for Trust and Safety” (phew what a title) Shuman Ghosemajumder discusses Google’s interest-based advertising, how to opt-out of it and some of the misinformation that may make the...

Big Brother’s Internet

Whether it is for spreading propaganda to a nation’s populous – or suppressing it – governments have always sought to control new forms of media. From the printing press to the radio and the television, there has been the presence of political powers....

Google’s Resources for Tracking Diseases and Outbreaks

A lot of people are unaware of Google.org, the philanthropic wing of Google. Since its inception, Google.org has been involved in a variety of initiatives covering such global issues as health and disease, climate change, education, poverty and alternative energy....

Scanned Documents Now Searchable at Google

Last week Google began turning PDF files of scanned printed documents into digital text, and as a result their searchable index has expanded once again. Previously, only rarely would a scanned document appear in the organic search results. With the technology of...