Tag: google
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Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed … in 42 days
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Andrew Orlowski
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of George Orwell’s birth, and the writer who best explained the power of language on politics would be amazed what can be done with the Internet. On February 17 [2003] a front page news analysis in the New York Times bylined by Patrick Tyler described the global anti-war protests…
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“This MS Antitrust story was created by a computer program”
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Andrew Orlowski
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Google’s News service is remarkable: and the most astonishing thing about it is that it is generated automatically. ” The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program,” says a note at the foot of each page. But why stop there? Why not use Perl scripts to generate…