Google is ‘white bread for the mind’
January 17th, 2008
As the morning news today claimed that most students in the UK are guilty of plagiarism and copy and paste huge chunks of material found on the internet, a UK professor has criticised the effect that Google is having on students, calling the search engine ‘white bread for the mind’
Tara Brabazon of the University of Brighton believes that the … Read full article>
Open-source search engine launches
January 8th, 2008
Wikia Search, the new open-source search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, launched yesterday in alpha.
According to Wales though, users shouldn’t be expecting too much from the site just yet, and the actual search results ’suck’ at the moment. He predicts that it may take a year or two before it can hope to compete … Read full article>
Google develops online encyclopedia
December 18th, 2007
Search engine giant Google is taking on Wikipedia with the development of a user-generated online encyclopedia.
Dubbed the ‘knol’ project after what Google calls a unit of knowledge, the new information source will encourage experts on a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it.
According to Udi Manber, Google’s VP of Engineering:
“A knol on a … Read full article>
