In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...
Google noticed that after September 11 people were constantly searching the web for the most updated information. Minute by minute updates was what people were searching for. Today the web has reaches just such a place. Take a look at Twitter many news stories have broken first on Twitter and then the press gets a hold of it. The web certainly has changed and Search Engines need to keep up. Google has now taken things further with a completely new indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine is set to deliver 50 % faster results that their previous indexing system. So whether it's a news story, blog post or a video Google seeks to deliver it seconds after it has been published. Let Google Explain the rest Some background for those of you who don't build search engines for a living like us: when you search Google, you're not searching the live web. Instead you're searching Google's index of the web which, like the list in the back of a book, helps you pinpoint exactly t...