First London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup - November 27th at Google HQ (2)
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I’ve been invited to speak at the first London Geo/Mobile Developers Meetup next Thursday 27th November - hosted by Google at their offices in Victoria. Christopher Osborne has put together an exciting program for the first event with three exciting presenters: Yahoo Fire Eagle – Gary Gale (Yahoo! Geo Technologies) CloudMade/Open Street Map – Nick Black (CloudMade) Location Based Advertising – Andrew Grill (London Calling) The presentations will be deliberately short, around ten minutes, with ...
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GPs will be screening for pre-diabetes from next year after the Government flung open the remit of its vascular screening programme and ushered in a new era of mass disease prevention.
谷歌撰文不点名批评百度搜索金钱至上 (2)
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今天看到谷歌的一篇雄文，也是第一次看到带着火药味的黑板报《中文搜索：公正性是实现准确性的根本—中国搜索行业应当立即行动起来、正视搜索公正性》。以前黑板报一般会说自己好，一般不说别人不好，尤其是涉及百度，尽量不去攻击百度。我在考虑谷歌会不会改变在中国市场上“防御性”的市场态势，转而走向具有一定攻击性的商业路线。文中提到“3. 我们呼吁所有的搜索引擎，加入谷歌、腾讯、雅虎的行列，作出下列承诺： （1） 明确标识和区分广告及自然搜索结果，以免误导用户； （2） 珍惜搜索结果页面的黄金区域，决不让第一页搜索结果全部为广告充斥，让中文用户彻底告别搜索从第二页开始的历史； （3） 绝不滥用自身的市场地位，绝不以收费或变相收费的形式来改变或删除搜索结果。”呼吁所有的搜索引擎，加入到谷歌、腾讯、雅虎的行列，这里面已经表明，谷歌、腾讯、雅虎已经站在一队了，剩下来的百度、MSN&LIVE搜索、搜狗、有道、中搜，能入谷歌法眼的，当然是百度。再看看谷歌剑指何处：（1）要求百度明确标出来广告；（2）要求百度放弃第一页全是商业广告；（3）要求百度不要搜索引擎危机公关的保护费；这三项要求，可谓枪枪命中百度的命门。然而我认为百度应不会缚手就擒，百度现在的收入就是广告啊，没有广告费怎么活啊？以前新浪的CEO曾经承诺过在某年某月的某一天，放弃新浪臭名昭著的“背投广告”。金钱的诱惑面前，往往七尺男儿变成了信口雌黄的黄口小儿。众所周知，只要有客户需求，无论什么关键字，百度都可以把第一页的TOP结果让出来，全部给竞价广告客户，这种自然搜索结果为赞助商链接让路的作法，甚至改变了中文搜索网页热区的形式，形成了把搜索首页结果当成垃圾的奇异用户体验。不是没有传出来放弃搜索首页全面广告的传言，然而要“美好的令名”，还是要财务报表，股东会用有形和无形的手做出选择。谷歌承认百度的市场主导地位，正是这种主导的地位，给予了百度敢于藐视用户搜索体验，采用原始的手工干预的方法来搞搜索排名，更时不时暴出收取公关费，为商业企业清除负面搜索结果的传言（三鹿奶粉公关危机、百度汽车频道PowerPoint流出）。关于“搜索从第二页开始”，这里或可看成百度成功的“用户培训”，一批批用户，已经习惯了百度的做法，自觉的学习和提高了“百度搜索技巧”。这种独吃独占虽然被SEO界千夫指，但用户却始终没有抛弃百度，个中原因，可否归结为网民结构使然，百度的用户年龄、职业、受教育程度，决定了群体权利意识淡谟，对百度在“搜索领域霸权”缺少反抗意识，倒是继承了逆来顺受的“优良传统”。百度和Google同为在美国上市的国际性高科技企业，股权结构上并没有“资、社”之分，巧得是，百度被描绘成反谷歌侵略的小兵张嘎，而谷歌却成为越过万里长城身姿优雅的巨兽。这种文化上的亲与疏，给谷歌造成很多麻烦，搜索引擎的跨文化商业运作，之前并没有前例可循，说是摸着石头过河，并不为过。我给谷歌的建议是：多思考作恶多端的百度为什么没有被用户抛弃？谷歌檄文还提到了：“从我们的中国工程研究院成立至今，每一个季度，谷歌中国处理垃圾信息的工作一直是中国搜索引擎里最好的，也是在谷歌全球所有搜索语言中保持领先的。”我疑惑的是，谷歌中国（google.cn）是中文垃圾信息过滤最好（No.1），又是谷歌全球语言保持领先的（No.1），那么中文antispam也强过英语antispam了，匪夷所思，有明白的，还是希望多透露点细节。
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In this photo illustration a limited edition commemmorative coin depicting US President elect Barack Obama sits in the workshop of a die maker on November 5, 2008, in Birmingham, England. The coin has been struck to mark the historic election of Barack Obama in the United States. Birmingham company Winston Elizabeth & Windsor in association with UK Fine Arts has already sold more than 300 limited edition commemorative silver coins with solid gold versions in ...
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