Google Thinks I’m Someone Else
PR guru Steve Rubel notes that Google now includes thumbnails for WordPress blogs in search results. That’s great, except for one thing: Google thinks I’m Filipino gaming manager Carlo Ople.
I blog about the guy twice, and I become him. Talk about identity theft. Carlo’s not alone — Google also thinks a lot of people are tech blogger Allen Stern.
I blog about Filipina cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao a lot more than I blog about Carlo. If Google’s image matching algorithms are going to mistake me for someone else, why couldn’t Alodia appear in my search result thumbnail? No offense to Carlo, but Alodia’s a lot prettier.
Governments Must Bail Out Tech
As the recession rolls on, the United States government is handing multibillion-dollar bailouts to sunset industries whose mistakes got us into this mess in the first place. First they bail out banks whose executives just party with the money, even as PayPal reports a 27% jump on Cyber Monday. Now they bail out carmakers who refuse to go electric, even as Tesla ships high-performance electric sports cars.
The British, on the other hand, have the right idea: Click here to continue reading “Governments Must Bail Out Tech”…
