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Five for Five?
Do you know what that means? It means that after you ride in an Uber Taxi, just before you exit you agree to give the driver a five star rating if they agree to give you a five star rating. How...
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Google’s Knowledge Based Trust Score
Do You Want to be Popular or do you want to be Trustworthy? Google Search has been using popularity to determine reliability. A clever strategy when the Internet was in its infancy, but now, just like...
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Is Google the Best Place for Legal Information? Well… Yes and No
blind justice statue Ray Tomlinson, a 62-year-old from Warren, Michigan just wanted to get home quickly: driving from Arizona to Michigan was a long trip. When his girlfriend sitting in the passenger...
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Does that Sound Like Research to You?
Three days after his wife died from cyanide poisoning, medical researcher Robert Ferrante typed a search into Yahoo! Answers: How would a coroner detect when someone is killed by cyanide? Several...
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Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me: Taylor Swift, Tenure, and Scholarly Research.
We laugh, but only to stop from sobbing. On a recent NPR game show, a Taylor Swift joke pokes fun at a common research mistake: anecdotal evidence being thought of as somehow meaningful and...
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Are Cat Videos Influencing Your Science News?
[Excerpt from: Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth] …For science information in particular, there is concern that crowdsourcing and click rates are influencing...
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Does Google Cheat?
A new study funded by Yelp suggests that Google has its “thumb on the scale” when it comes to providing searchers with the “best” links. Really? Even without a study just try typing into Google the...
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Who’s Your Information Daddy?
Google: “Latina Girls.” Go ahead. I’ll wait. What did you get? Concerning right? My top five hits: Sexy Latina Girls (YouTube) 7 Reasons Every Man Should Date a Latina (ReturnofKings.com) Sexy Latina...
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