• Study finds ‘global warming’ elicits stronger reactions than ‘climate change’ among Americans

    Study finds ‘global warming’ elicits stronger reactions than ‘climate change’ among Americans

    May 27, 2014 06:20 PM EDT

    ... triggering stronger negative connotations than its counterpart. In addition, the studies listed in the report found that “global warming” was used more frequently as a search term, was more likely to be heard and used in discourse, and was more engaging of a term than “climate change.” The website for ...

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    What will be the Google Zeitgeist of 2013?

    Dec 12, 2013 11:36 PM EDT

    #TBT: 10 years ago, @BritneySpears topped our Zeitgeist as the top-trending search term. Who will it be this year? pic.twitter.com/ARspcBjvGw— A Googler (@google) December 12, 2013 NewsHour Extra has teamed up with Google and Meograph for the #MyZeitgeist challenge. They're giving students across the ...

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    Obama Dispatches Officials for Fiscal Cliff Talks

    Nov 29, 2012 02:15 PM EDT

    ... for you.— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 28, 2012 But #My2K quickly spun away from its intended public relations effort. The conservative Heritage Foundation bought the search term before it went viral, and a link to a column criticizing Warren Buffett became the top "promoted tweet" on the #My2K search page ...

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    View from Venezuela: Chavez Backers Celebrate Win; Opposition 'Stunned'

    Oct 08, 2012 04:25 PM EDT

    ... one bringing it up." But after Chavez's comfortable win, the taboo seemed to have lifted. Gupta pointed out that someone had tweaked the Twitter search term used in the campaign #hayuncamino, or "there is a way", to #hayuncancer, or "there is a cancer". The question now is whether the ...

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    Disease Trackers Examine Search Engine Data for Clues

    Apr 09, 2009 08:10 PM EDT

    ... search-term surveillance should not be a replacement for more traditional forms of disease reporting, or for news report aggregators, which show more specifics than search-term analysis. Tools and systems that aggregate isolated health news reports, such as the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, created by Health Canada, started ...

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    Google Rebuffs Government Subpoena

    Jan 20, 2006 05:00 AM EDT

    ... communications. JEFFREY BROWN: Millions of people use Google every day to get information. The company fields some 3,000 searches per second. Some use the search engine to access sexual content, which is plentiful. For example, the search term "sex sites" turns up some 65 million hits in a matter ...

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    Internet Filters Can Block Health Information, Study Says

    Dec 10, 2002 10:34 PM EDT

    ... searches on the terms "condoms," "safe sex" and "gay." At the intermediate level between 20 and 27 percent of results were blocked, depending on the search term. Paul Resnick, associate professor at the University of Michigan's School of Information and co-author of the study, said there should be ...

  • How using facial analysis in job interviews could reinforce inequality

    How using facial analysis in job interviews could reinforce inequality

    Oct 07, 2019 07:26 PM EDT

    ... UCLA professor, Safya Noble, demonstrates in her book Algorithms of Oppression, a few simple Google searches shows this happening. For example, when you search the term “professor style”, Google Images returns exclusively middle-aged white men. You get similar results for a “successful manager” search. By contrast, a search for ...

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    Search, Rescue Ongoing in Joplin's 'Concentrated' Area of Tornado Damage

    May 24, 2011 10:03 PM EDT

    ... into some of the heavy-hit areas where there was apartment complexes and digging through those piles at this time. GWEN IFILL: You mentioned the term search-and-rescue, which, by covering former disasters -- past disasters, we know there's a point at which that becomes search-and-recovery. Do ...

  • Top U.S. intel officer confirms warrantless searches of Americans

    Top U.S. intel officer confirms warrantless searches of Americans

    Apr 01, 2014 10:27 PM EDT

    ... attack. As an example, Inglis said if the government was concerned that terrorists were plotting to attack the New York Stock Exchange, the NSA could search for the term "New York Stock Exchange" among the conversations it collected in its targeting of foreigners overseas. Wyden, Udall and other civil liberties ...

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