Google is successful in the English-speaking world, but it has a way to go yet with some other languages. It’s using semantic indexing to help it get there. Google has perfected its […]
We live in a data-driven world. For instance, if you activate location services on Google Maps and, a year later, go to your timeline, it can tell you where you were on […]
Looker, the data platform builder looking to expand the reach of its “horizontal” foundation, added another component this week with the integration of its tools with the beta release of Google’s cloud-based […]
Data scientists are in high demand, taking the coveted no. 1 spot on Glassdoor’s Best Jobs in America list for the past three years, and boasting a median base salary of $110,000 […]
Not that long ago, the concept of “Big Data” was pretty abstract. Few companies considered it feasible to sift through huge sets of data looking for speculative insights. The hurdles to collecting […]
For many, Google Search defines the known boundaries of the internet. To some degree that’s true, with a majority of the commercial web activity occurring on easily searchable common domains. But there […]
Facebook, Google and and the ‘big data’ revolution is undermining western democracy while strengthening the hand of authoritarian states to address the challenges thrown up the globalisation. That is the contention of […]
