Google Plans Online-Payment Service, from Wall Street Journal, Google Said to Plan Rival to PayPal, from New York Times.

“Google Inc. this year plans to offer an electronic-payment service that could help the Internet-search company diversify its revenue and may heighten competition with eBay Inc.’s PayPal unit(What’s paypal? (CHT)) , according to people familiar with the matter.”

Google 槓上 PayPal, 應該蠻好玩的 :p

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Google Now Worth $80 Billion, from InsideGoogle.

google 現在值 814 億美金. God!, 不過 Microsoft 現在是 $275.62 Billion, 二兆美金!

• Google (GOOG, $293.12), 81.42 Billion
• Yahoo (YHOO, $52.28), 52.28 Billion
• Microsoft (MSFT, $25.51), 275.62 Billion

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Slashdot 的 Google’s Secret Lab, a Flash movie is here. InsideGoogle 的 Google Running Secret Quality Labs?

大意是說 google 請了一堆 Quality Rater 作 ”help with work on a search quality evaluation” 和 “Candidates will evaluate search results and rate their relevance”. Comment 中也有人提到過去 Yahoo! 也有花錢請 “Surfers” (the actual job title) 作差不多一樣的事情.

好像請 rater 已經是常態了? 還是目前的技術還沒有辦法用 machine-learning 或 system analysis 的方法來解決這樣的問題?

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