“I’m not sure if we think about society, or that society thinks us,” that’s what I heard Malcolm Muggeridge say, when I was about 10 years old. Malcolm Muggeridge was a British journalist and philosopher and I often saw him on British TV when I was...

Search is the most important Internet application and it is vital to the health of the Internet and to online commerce. But looking more closely at search, and how the index is compiled, I’m beginning to realize it is highly inefficient and places a...

I was looking at my server logs the other day and saw that 16 spiderbots visit every day. And it’s astonishing how much bandwidth and processing they consume. They are responsible for more than one third of the hits and consume 45% of total bandwidth!...

The recent debate about News Corp. threatening to leave the Google index, and Google’s problems in attempting to index out-of-print books are all related to its commercial status. What if the search index were held by a non-profit? A lot of those...

Last night I attended the Tech Awards Gala, which celebrates technology benefiting humanity, with the award of five $50,000 “cash prizes.” Technology in the service of humanity seems a better description because all the 15 laureates chosen,...