9 Best Articles in 2020
André Staltz
The Web began dying in 2014, here's how
André Staltz
~11 min read · 1056 saves · From 2017 · André Staltz The Web began dying in 2014, here's how Before the year 2014, there were many people using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there are still many people using services from those three…
The New York Times
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
The New York Times
1043 saves · From 2016 · Charles Duhigg · New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter.
The New York Times
The Great A.I. Awakening
The New York Times
920 saves · From 2016 · Writing for The New York Times Magazine, Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s article breaks down a complex, multilayered story of artificial intelligence into an absorbing, detailed read. The story of Google Translate involves?many prestigious players, who all worked together to create an impressively improved translation tool in far less time than originally expected. This is a tale?of the meeting of many minds to create a single truly powerful?artificial one that?will have future uses beyond translating from one language to another.
Brian Dean
Google Ranking Factors: The Complete List
Brian Dean
857 saves · From 2014 · A list of all 200 Google ranking factors. Here you'll learn the ranking signals that search engines use to rank pages and sites.
justinobeirne.com
Google Maps’s Moat
justinobeirne.com
~14 min read · 619 saves · From 2017 · How far ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps?
WIRED
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
WIRED
543 saves · 2019-08-13 · Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.
MIT Technology Review
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says
MIT Technology Review
7 min read · 475 saves · Dec 4th · The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business.
Inc.
Google Has Announced a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree
Inc.
2 min read · 429 saves · Aug 19th · Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college.
Visual Capitalist
Chart: Here's How 5 Tech Giants Make Their Billions
Visual Capitalist
5 min read · 358 saves · From 2017 · on May 12, 2017 at 1:03 pm The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Last year, we published a chart showing that tech companies have displaced traditional blue chip…
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Blob Opera - Google Arts & Culture
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319 saves · Dec 15th · Create your own opera inspired song with Blob Opera - no music skills required ! A machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with Google Art...
TechCrunch
Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine to take on Google
TechCrunch
2 min read · 69 saves · Dec 8th · Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, who helped build the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, is taking on a new challenge — and it’s a doozy. Socher wants to fix consumer…
Axios
Scoop: Google CEO pledges to investigate exit of top AI ethicist
Axios
3 min read · 57 saves · Dec 15th · Sundar Pichai also apologized for what he acknowledged was a breach in trust with staff.
WIRED
Texas Accuses Google and Facebook of an Illegal Conspiracy
WIRED
2 min read · 42 saves · Dec 17th · Gilad Edelman · A new antitrust case against Google alleges that the two companies made a deal to reduce competition in online advertising.
youtube.com
Google — Year in Search 2020
youtube.com
41 saves · Dec 9th · In times of uncertainty, people seek understanding and meaning. This year, the world searched “why” more than ever. This film features the questions we asked...
Creative Bloq
Is Google's Blob Opera the best thing on the web?
Creative Bloq
1 min read · 40 saves · Dec 16th · Daniel Piper · It's both brilliant and bizarre.
The Verge
Google acquires Neverware, a company that turns old PCs into Chromebooks
The Verge
1 min read · 38 saves · Dec 16th · Monica Chin · It’s invested in Neverware in the past.
