Google react quickly to what was deemed a relatively uninformative product, just in the nick of time  a new version of flu trends specifically catering for Mexico appears. The service now seems to be an accurate form of tracking the spread of Swine Flu. Whilst the service initially lacked in terms of giving advance warning, [...]

Yet another program aimed at bettering a search engine  – Wolfram Alpha appears, this time questions inputted will be answered directly by grabbing  raw data already available from public sources and feeds. I’m just wondering how effective this will be in terms of gathering quality information?   Immediate claims are it will be like having an [...]

According to the UK  information commissioner there is only a small risk of invasion of privacy with Google Street view. Spotting breaches of privacy isn’t always that simple I don’t think, with such a growing entity like street view surely a line needs to be drawn somewhere. The question I ask is what’s acceptable for [...]