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...know this? The secret to Google's primary use can be found in the top searches that people enter on the site. The #1 term, representing over 4% of all U.S. searches on Google, is for the site that surpassed Google last summer to become the most popular domain on the Internet, "MySpace." In fact 17 of the top 20 searches on Google are searches for the other leading Internet sites such as "ebay," "yahoo," and "mapquest." The most puzzling search term that Internet users enter into a Google searchbox is the 14th most popular term: "Google." (In case...
...college. The undergraduate years, the theory goes, are for making mistakes—hooking up with your suitemate, say, or majoring in philosophy—with limited consequences. There’s good reason for this exceptionalism: If everything that happened in college were suddenly in the public domain, students would feel less free to take risks—although it’s debatable whether getting trashed and uploading your drunken rendition of “Fat-Bottomed Girls” to YouTube is the sort of risk schools want to encourage. Subjecting everyone involved in a student government...
...project allows individuals to read Harvard’s out-of-copyright books online and to locate text with keyword searching. In the U.S., works copyrighted before 1923 are generally in the public domain...
...Google’s initiative has been mired in lawsuits from copyright holders, though Harvard is only scanning works that are in the public domain...
...pattern?). The “demography is destiny” thesis combines two related arguments: Firstly, Europeans (meaning, inevitably, Christians) are committing collective suicide by not reproducing fast enough; secondly, Muslims are replacing these sterile sons of Europe. This argument isn’t solely the domain of the religious right—Oriana Fallaci, a vitriolic Italian atheist, made similar arguments—but theocons are undoubtedly the most vocal doomsday prophets...