A Nastygram for Google Juice
The arrogance of traditional ecommerce never ceases to amaze me. Dean Hunt’s blog happens to rank high in Google SERPs for a certain keyword, and some company wants him to “remove your blog from google for this search term [sic].”
Hold on, it gets better. Their rationale? “An online business should be higher in Google than a blog [sic].” So selling something “should” automatically take priority over saying something? Even the most arrogant salesman knows you have to say something before you sell something!
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NASA Porting More Data into Google Earth
Remember that NASA-Google Space Act Agreement I mentioned? Turns out it’s mostly NASA incorporating more data into Google Earth.
Google and the NASA Ames Research Center have signed an agreement to work together on a variety of projects that include large-scale data management and distributed computing and human-to-computer interfaces.
The search engine and the space agency said Monday that the first in the series of joint collaborations covered under the Space Act Agreement would make more NASA information available on the Internet. Such projects would include real-time weather visualization and forecasting, 3-D maps of the moon and Mars, and tracking of the international space station and the space shuttle.
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