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Thursday, September 09, 2010

Google launches Instant, streaming search to the browser

Google has announced a major change to its fundamental technology, dubbed Instant, which streams real-time search results as the user types. The new system searches automatically as the user types and displays the results underneath the text box, as well as a set of five predictions as to the object of the search. By scrolling down these predictions the search information changes for each one. “This is a fundamental shift to search, the speed and ease with which people can find information has changed,” said Marissa Meyer, Google's vice president of search products. She said that on average users spent nine seconds typing a search and 15 seconds considering their result. Google Instant will shave seconds off this and the company estimates that the changes will save the billion users it gets a week around eleven hours every second. There is however a blacklist of words that would not be used for Instant searches the company said. Sexual, violent of hate terms would not automatically produce resutls until Send has been pressed. Google Instant will be available for registered users in the US immediately, and the service will be rolled out in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Russia next week. The technology will be built directly into the browser by this autumn Meyer said and a mobile version will come in the same time frame. (VNU Net)

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Join EJC & top media thinkers at PICNIC 2010

On 23 September, world class media thinkers including Jeff Jarvis, Rafat Ali, Mark Glaser and Paul Bradshaw, will join EJC for a day of debates on the future of journalism at PICNIC 2010.

Held in Amsterdam every year, PICNIC is a renowned festival-cum-conference that blurs the lines between creativity, science, technology, business and society. Attracting a wide audience, from government leaders and heads of business to scientists and innovators, the aim is to explore new solutions in the spirit of co-creation.

Covering the successes and failures of recent years in the media industry, as well as the growth of public engagement, EJC’s exclusive one-day PICNIC 2010 programme will focus on the real need to reconstruct journalism and its relationship with the citizen and society.

Posted on August 11, 2010 by EJC
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Press Freedom 2.0: pluralism and participation

The Press Freedom Consortium, a new collaboration of five Dutch development organisations that support press freedom worldwide, has finalised and submitted its final programme application this Thursday to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague, in the context of the ‘Co-Financing System II’ (MFSII).

The proposal, entitled Press Freedom 2.0, aims to alleviate structural poverty by enhancing media quality, improving democratic processes and strengthening women, children and minorities by giving them a voice.

Posted on July 1, 2010 by EJC
Filed under announcements.

EJC launches GoogleWatch to monitor global conversations about Google

We’ve had our eye on Google since the beginning.

We now bring you GoogleWatch, a stand-alone platform that enables a deeper look at the global conversation about Google.

Posted on May 20, 2010 by EJC
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Press Freedom 2.0 moves forward

The Dutch Ministry of Development Co-operation has encouraged Press Freedom 2.0, a collaboration of five organisations including the EJC, to persist with its plan to strengthen press freedom worldwide.

The Press Freedom 2.0 project will address challenges to media and journalism in a development context. The project will focus on 13 developing countries over five years as part of the wider goals of the Dutch foreign ministry in reducing global poverty.

Posted on April 12, 2010 by EJC
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Austrian writer Robert Menasse recently spent time at the EU institutions in Brussels on a research trip for a new novel that will be set in Europe in the year 2030.

Formerly rather critical of the EU, the experience has led him to substantially change his mind. He says that it is not a lack of democratic legitimacy that impedes the European Union, but that Europe’s democracy has a major constructional flaw: it is merely implemented in national increments. 

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