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Data Mining the Web

An interesting article today on MSNBC titled “Online search engines lift cover of privacy“, and the “InfoPorn” section of February’s Wired (can’t find a link, sorry) highlighting identity theft motivated me to write about a topic I’ve been thinking about for a while now: data mining the Web. The article talks about the absurd amount… Continue reading Data Mining the Web

Quick linking

Here’s something interesting: my blog entry on Bend WinterFest is now the number 4 result on Google when searching for “Bend winterfest“—less than two weeks after I posted it. Damn, that’s fast.

Google Calculator

Here’s an interesting tidbit: Google now has a built-in calculator. This is a cool feature to be sure, but AlltheWeb has been doing this for a while now (as an undocumented feature), since at least April 14, 2003. Try it and see.

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