Monthly Archives: July 2012

Facebook vs. Google: Who is the king of online advertising?

I think it’s a safe bet to say that Facebook and Google are the 2 most popular names people associate when it comes to the internet. Google itself, along with its recent acquisition of YouTube, has become a household name. …

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Google Found The Secret To Success

Twenty years ago Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched one of the most revoluntionary sites to ever hit the web. Google is the biggest most widely used search engine in the world. Google has become a verb and a meme. …

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The Negative Effects of Human Behavior Towards Technology’s Innovations

The growing age of technology today continues to expand and branch out into new forms of tools and knowledge. From the evolution of the telegraphs to smartphones, standard television to high-definition flat screens, and record players to iPods, these innovations …

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Will people be working less with the advancement of technology?

Brian Hayes makes a good point when he states that not that long ago, “nearly everyone agreed that people would be working less once computers and other kinds of automatic machinery became widespread.” I think that although technology is becoming …

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Is Twitter bad news for News?

Last night as I was about to go to sleep, I was about to close out of twitter on my phone, but I noticed the name of one of my favorite athletes “trending” on twitter. I immediately searched and found …

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Advertising in the Age of Social Networks: A Virtual Gold Rush?

In the article “The Revolution of Will Not Be Monetized” by Bob Garfield, he asserts that in the era of huge internet properties such as Google’s Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, which have sold for billions on the open market, sky …

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Google’s Secrets to Success

Google has become the most popular search engine in the world. Only five years after its creation, Google was in control of about 85% of overall Internet searches and has only grown since then. So how did founders Larry Page …

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Is Google Doing More Harm Than Good?

When I was in elementary school my teacher would take us to the school library. The nice little librarian would come over and give us a lesson on how to look up books in the book catalog. After you received …

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Just Google It! Are we too dependent on this search engine??

Whenever you are unsure of a topic, the first thing that comes to mind is to Google it. This website is both a curse and blessing for those of us that use it daily. While Google has its benefits, there …

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Do we use technology or does technology use us?

The advancements in technology have been on a constant roll for many years with the introduction of the telegraph to the computer to the laptop to the cell phone andd the list goes on. Our consumption of technology has not …

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