Google Makes Us Dumb. You Won’t Believe What Happens Next

When Google was founded in September of 1998 it’s mission was simple enough: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. They did this by creating what we now know as the PageRank algorithm, but was first called “BackRub“, in an attempt to create a better search engine than what AltaVista, Ask … Read more

It’s a Fact: Opinions Are Not Facts

My children had a school assignment the other day. They needed to read a passage and then determine if the sentences describe an opinion or a fact. They looked for clues in the sentences, for phrases like “I think dogs are cute” (opinion) and “cats have four paws” (fact). I think that makes them better than … Read more

Think Klout Isn’t Using your Facebook stats? Think Again…

Last week I was doing some housecleaning of sorts with Google+. I had moved from the gmail.com account to using my Google domain account. As a result I noticed that my Klout score took a slight dip: No, not the big dip you see…the smaller dip just to the left. Turns out that the number of … Read more