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This 50 minutes documentary gives an in-depth look in the world of Google and Search.

What if all the world’s information would be available and easy to find? What if all the news, all books, all texts, photographs and videos would be collected in one place, and made available, always and everywhere?

This is the goal of Google, and the company seems to be realising its core mission at an amazing speed: through its popular search engine, through Google Earth, with which users can find any kind of information based on geography, and through Google Print, a project in which Google digitizes complete libraries.

Google is divulging ever more information, in the process hiring the smartest people in the industry. But is the company aware of the responsibility it has, being the guard to all the world’s information, including personal information about its users?

This documentary takes a look into the world of Google, in the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California and in its London offices. We see –among others- Vint Cerf, named ‘the father’ of the Internet who explains the inner workings of Google as a company. Since 2004, Cerf has been working for Google, helping them to develop new applications for the Internet. What is his view on the development of the Internet, and on the role Google plays in today’s world?

With its motto ‘Don’t be evil’, Google seems to have the best intentions. But there are also claims that Google is slowly turning into Big Brother, keeping track of its users and continuously making decisions about the Information it provides to an ever faster growing number of users.

Will Google turn out to be a new Library of Alexandria, serving as a middleman that brings all useful information to anyone? Or is it turning into a monopolistic Big Brother that challenges the freedom of information?

Research: Martijn Kieft
Director: IJsbrand van Veelen

VPRO Backlight 2006

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – what is information overload and how do you handle it? In a digital world, Information is everywhere, so how do you handle it?

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Information (Video)

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Shot and edited by Gabrielle Bouliane
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Buddy’s piece “The Information Man” featured at the Individual World Championship Slam 2006, in Charlotte, North Carolina.

http://www.buddywakefield.com

P.S. I had nothing to do with the making of this video. I’m just a fan who found on the web and thought it deserved to be seen by as many people as possible.

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An Exploration of why you should, and why you shouldn’t consider a career in Information Technology

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This is a learning object created for students in an English course at Otis College of Art and Design.

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The newest Search engine is also the most heartbreaking. See our videos a month earlier at http://www.collegehumor.com and follow us on http://www.twitter.com/collegehumor

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Google Tech Talk
December 4, 2009

ABSTRACT

Presented by Manuel Pérez-Quiñones.

Personal Information Management (PIM) practices are the behaviors that we follow when we organize our information. This often includes emails, documents, bookmarks, pictures, etc. Research in PIM has identified a common set of activities that require support: encountering information, organizing Information, filing/archiving, and reusing information. Different tools must provide different kinds of support for each one of these activities.

PIM practices become easier if the organization provides some infrastructure to alleviate the difficulty of these activities. But a larger value is that the organization can leverage these personal practices to improve the effectiveness of others and to capture that elusive corporate knowledge in an easy way.

In this talk, I will describe previous work in PIM and highlight how some of the PIM practices can be supported and leveraged from the organization point of view.

Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones is Associate Dean and Director of the Office for Graduate Recruiting and Diversity Initiatives at the Graduate School, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and a member of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech. Pérez-Quiñones holds a DSc in Computer Science from The George Washington University. His research interests include human-computer interaction, personal information management, user interface software, digital government, and educational uses of computers. He is a member of the Coalition to Diversify Computing, where he co-directs the national program Collaborative ReSearch Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Science and Engineering. He serves on the editorial board for ACM’s Transactions on Computing Education journal. For 2008-2010 has been included in the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor program.

About Perspectivas Speaker Series: Perspectivas is a speaker series aimed to empower and inspire individuals by providing ‘mentoring at scale’. Latino scientists and professionals share their perspectives on careers, work-life balance, and how they’ve achieved personal success.

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Byron Gordon, SEO-PR, interviews Peter Maxmin, Bing’s Director of Online Search of the UK, European and African markets, about Bings insights into search patterns and behaviors of users in that part of the globe. Although users said they were pleased with search, the data shows, however, that only one in four queries were successful. People are re-querying or abandoning their initial search attempts as they are not getting to the result they want Searching the first time and Bing sees this as an opportunity to provide better search results. Users are also performing tasks and sessions, not just individual querying, according to Peter, and searchers are trying to identify and buy products. As a result, half of those queries studied by Bing are over 30 minutes in length as people try and perform tasks. Peter says search engines were not traditionally set-up to perform these types of queries and Bing wants to move forward in this direction and not just focus on featuring the top ten blue links. Peter then goes on to describe Bings introduction of visual search. Peter concludes that Bing can help users find things faster than using Google and find Information that is more relevant to their search.

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