Caveat Google

UVA Prof. Siva Vaidhayanathan, speaking at VU, warns that the Googleization of everything can lead to debased learning and excessive consumerism. VU release here.

'Content is King": techies

Original content may still be the most important ingredient in scoring well with Google, thanks to further tweaking of the searchmeister's technology. Local techies comment here.

Industrial Strength Marketing to offer marketing toolset

Brentwood-based Industrial Strength Marketing CEO James Soto says his company will soon offer a toolset that allows overworked marketers to employee easily social media and convergence tools. William Williams of the City Paper reports it.

Medical search engines learn from consumer slang

A Siemens-backed innovations website reports on how scientists, including one at ORNL, are helping search engines learn from dialect, slang and other imprecise consumer queries.