Today, Google web search is getting a new, bigger, better brain

May 16, 2012 10:00 AM Jolie O'Dell
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Finally, Google’s search algorithm is getting a huge boost from a source we can actually trust.

No, it’s not your dimwit friends and their Facebook shares. It’s Knowledge Base, a semantically structured body of data 500 million items strong and …

The “Facebook Timeline bump:” App usage skyrockets for Goodreads

February 29, 2012 10:05 AM Jolie O'Dell
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Goodreads is an app for those who are both bookish and web-friendly, and in a recent call with VentureBeat, founder Otis Chandler told us Facebook’s new Timeline-focused actions are just about the best thing that’s ever happened to the company.…

Facebook gives us some clues about the next 12 months of Timeline

February 8, 2012 2:25 PM Jolie O'Dell
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Facebook product chief Carl Sjogreen gave developers and others a few clues about what to expect from Facebook over the next year.

At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco today, the Facebook executive laid out the three most …