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    “Hey [Google], Haven’t [given you more control over my emails, memories, and livelihood in a while.] Why [don’t you assume my voice and entire digital identity to complete the job?] I’ve [attached all my banking details passwords to make it easier for you]. Love, [everyone]”

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    Google Maps emailed me today saying my photos had reached 500,000 views. This one from Red n Hot Szechuan restaurant has 180,000 views, mostly because it’s shown when you pan around King’s Cross.

  • Defending the Library of Google

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    In the current issue of The New York Review of Books, Robert Darnton, Director of the University Library at Harvard, writes about Google’s efforts to digitise the world’s books and create a new universal library. For the most part, the article is really very well-written and enlightening. However, when comes around to criticising Google Book…

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    Search by Location – a new Google Labs demo. Remember, you saw it at mssv first…

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    labs.google.com – various neat alpha-stage applications including Google Glossary (works fairly well for the technical terms I tested it with), voice searching and keyboard searching.

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    Google Answers – pay to have a question answered. As I commented in Metafilter, “I predict that within but a few months, the vast majority of Google Researchers will be high school students or people from countries where the average level of pay is much lower than the western world’s…” (read more of my comment)