Google operates, at this point in time, as if the Web is the be-all-end-all of communication. If the Web disappeared Google would die. Consider this more carefully. Google's entire operation is Web based. News, however, is cross-platform: TV, radio, Web, paper. If the Web died, news would survive. That's an important distinction. Google is not inventing ...
Donica wrote in the previous entry: “we now measure clicks and know with certainty that what we thought people were interested in is rarely supported by the evidence.” I would say the measure of clicks is widely useless in measuring reader salience for a few reasons (in some cases). For one, a lot of important issues proliferate ...
At my lunch with the developer yesterday, he said he wants to make a news site that has two home pages. One is like google’s home page but only for the s ite so people who drilldown can do so with no interruptions. And a My Homepage for people who like to browse. Ingenius. ...