HonkinNews for November 22, 2016 Now Available

November 22, 2016

This week’s HonkinNews talks about a Thanksgiving surprise for Verizon AOL professionals. Shakespeare’s idea about what to do with lawyers is revisited with a 21st century twist: Hit the delete key. Is there disappearing information in the Google index? We report on one interesting unfindable. Video search may improve, but for now, it’s a meh. HonkinNews points out that “fake news” is now a thing and offers three variations on spoofing the “experts”. We identify the two French enterprise search vendors who have transformed themselves into artificial intelligence vendors in a remarkable demonstration of their flexibility. IBM Watson’s new initiative homes to get “into” a host of new revenue opportunities. You can view the program at this link. The special Google Trilogy programs filmed live in Harrod’s Creek become available starting on December 20, 2016. There are three seven minute videos in the series which summarizes the principal findings from The Google Legacy (2005), Google Version 2.0 (2007), and Google: The Digital Gutenberg (2009). The monographs are out of print but the information remains timely as Alphabet Google spells out its future.

Kenny Toth, November 22, 2016

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under News, Rich media

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.