The Internet, Personalization, and Democracy

Wow. I am scared. Worth the watch.
I never really thought the google ads at the top of my gmail were all that bad. But I don't like them all so much anymore.






Hope to post something more substantial soon.

WolframAlpha

Now I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of you have seen this already, but thought it merited a blog post. Apparently Stephen Wolfram, the genius behind our beloved (most of the time) Mathematica, has created a search engine. You can ask this search engine any question and it will compute the answer for you. Of course, it must be objective. You can read about it more thoroughly here. Frankly, I'm pretty excited to start testing it once it becomes available.