How Search Engines Work, by Mike Grehan: “This year (2012) it will be ten years since I wrote the second edition of a book about search engines called Search Engine Marketing: The Essential Best Practice Guide. I decided to revisit it recently. Writing it was very difficult because there was nowhere near the amount of information available about the inner workings of search engines and information retrieval on the web back in the day. So once I finished it, I breathed a sigh of relief and have very rarely ventured back into its pages. Even now, I frequently meet people at conferences who bought it and still regard it as a useful resource. And surprisingly for me, having just re-read the most important parts of it, I also find a lot of it to be as relevant and fresh now as it was a decade ago.”
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Daily Archives: February 11, 2012
McKinsey – Deep analytical talent: Where are they now?
Via The Age of Big Data by Steve Lohr, New York Times: “Analyzing large data setsso called big datawill become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus as long as the right policies and enablers are in place. Research by MGI and McKinsey’s Business Technology Office examines… Continue Reading
BLS Mass Layoffs Summary, Fourth Quarter 2011
News release: “Employers in the private nonfarm sector initiated 1,638 mass layoff events in the fourth quarter of 2011 that resulted in the separation of 266,971 workers from their jobs for at least 31 days, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. Over the year, total extended mass layoff events and associated worker separations were… Continue Reading
Senate Cmte. on Foreign Relations Report: Latin American Governments Need to "Friend" Social Media
Latin American Governments Need to “Friend” Social Media and Technology, by Carl Meacham, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer for Latin America and the Caribbean, October 5, 2011 “In 2011, social media usage is booming and will likely continue to do so in the coming years. Earlier this month, it was reported that Facebook now… Continue Reading
EU – Cyber Security Aspects in the Maritime Sector
“ENISA [European Network and Information Security Agency] has published the first EU report ever on cyber security challenges in the Maritime Sector. This principal analysis highlights essential key insights, as well as existing initiatives, as a baseline for cyber security. The high-level recommendations are given for addressing these risks, Cyber threats are a growing menace,… Continue Reading
White House Fact Sheet – The Federal Budget Fiscal Year 2013
The Federal Budget Fiscal Year 2013: “We now face a make-or-break moment for the middle class and those trying to reach it. After decades of eroding middle-class security as those at the very top saw their incomes rise as never before and after a historic recession that plunged our economy into a crisis from which… Continue Reading
EPIC: Google Report Raises New Questions About Compliance with Consent Order
EPIC: “The Google privacy compliance report, made public today, raises new questions about the company’s failure to comply with an FTC Consent Order. The Order required Google to answer detailed questions about how it protects the personal information of Google users. But Google chose not to answer many of the questions. Most significantly, the company… Continue Reading
OECD Review of Telecommunication Policy and Regulation in Mexico
OECD Review of Telecommunication Policy and Regulation in Mexico, January 2012 “OECD countries have recognised the increasing role played by the telecommunications sector as a means of improving productivity and economic growth while enabling governments to improve provision of public services. Mexico, with the lowest GDP per capita in the OECD, a high inequality of… Continue Reading
