by Ron Miller

If the government wants you, where you store your data doesn’t matter

Since revelations about the NSA PRISM program surfaced, there has been a debate about the safety and viability of the public cloud, but if the government has you in its sights, where you store your data isn't going to matter.

Read my full post on my TechTarget View from Above blog.

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No shortage of opinions on Facebook Graph Search

Facebook released Graph Search last week and writers jumped on it. As you can imagine opinions were all over the map. It would hurt Google. It's not about Google. It's inconsequential. It's significant. You get the idea. I round up some of them in this week's Editor's Corner.

Read my full post on FierceContentManagement.

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Google needs to choose search or content

As Google has grown, it has moved from being a pure search company to owning its own content, and that has the potential to create serious conflicts with its search business. It needs to decide if it's a search or content company, because if it doesn't, there is a good chance regulators will.

Read my full commentary on FierceContentManagement.

Google Search Has an Information Management Problem

My latest FierceContentManagement Editor's Corner looks at Google's increasingly crowded Search results page. Whatever happened to seeing a list of web sites in the results? Now Google wants to jam in everything under the sun on single page and it's not working.

Read my full commentary on FierceContentManagement.

Why Ex-Yahoo Boss Thompson Might Have Last Laugh

Would you rather be running a small startup or Yahoo!? I think Scott Thompson might find getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to him, while Marissa Mayer may soon be wondering what she was thinking when she accepted the job.

Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.

Consumer search engines display burst of innovation

In a surprising display of simultaneous innovation, the three major search engines announced some significant changes this month.

Read my full commentary on FierceContentManagement.

Facebook Should Stay Out of Web Search

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Facebook's current search tool is awful. Instead of trying to conquer web search, it would be better off making it easier to find your friends and content you have previously posted -- and leave web search to Google.

Read my full commentary on FierceContentManagement.

Search is the key to everything

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Whether it's Spotify, Twitter, Netflix or your enterprise; you need good search tools to find the content you are looking for (and they seem to be lacking, don't they?).

Read my full commentary on FierceContentManagement.

IBM Hops on the Big Data Analysis Band Wagon

As businesses are forced to process more and more data, it's becoming more of a curse than a blessing, and that's why finding ways to make sense of that data is becoming big business.

Read my full commentary on the NESS SPL Blog.

With Zagat Purchase, Google Faces Identity Crisis

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Google's purchase of Zagat thrusts it firmly into content production, but it's going to be difficult for the company to sell content and deliver unbiased search results.

Read my full commentary on FierceContentManagement.