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FEAR ENDANGERS BY DECEIVING The fear and uneasiness that provokes human beings to conflict is never what it seems to be; that is its nature and its method: to take hold by way of complex deceptions. Fear wages a coup d'esprit by deceiving the mind into thinking it promises clarity and intellectual comfort, peace of mind, justice and the healing of wounds, that it may actually generate the only feasible path to physical or political safety. [Full Story] UN NAMES 10 MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORIES FOR 2006 Every year, the United Nations publishes a list of the 10 most serious stories most overlooked by global press. Developing nations, whose situations are often misunderstood or dismissed by news media, as too complicated, intractable, or of marginal relevance, take the spotlight this year. [Full Story] |
GOOGLE LAUNCHES SPECIAL HEALTH ADVISORY GROUP, TO HELP USERS TARGET NEEDED HEALTH INFORMATION
ADVISORY GROUP IS PART OF EFFORT BY GOOGLE TO ENSURE THAT USERS NOT NEED TO SORT THROUGH RANDOM OR POSSIBLY ERRONEOUS INFORMATION ON SERIOUS MATTERS 7 July 2007 Google has launched a new special advisory group for health issues. The aim is to improve its overall search technology so that the end-user's experience is not a confusion of mis-matched or possibly dangerous flawed information regarding health issues. The hope is that Google's ability to provide relevent content will be honed and new search refining techniques will be discovered through the effort to ensure that health-related information is more relevant, more reliable, and more easily accessible. Part of the challenge Google faces is the very manner in which its search engine ranks web pages. There is an entire industry growing around the expertise of programmers and designers in getting sites listed prominently in Google searches. This means that those sites which may have the best information but are not up to speed on getting the attention of search engines, can get buried under a barrage of commercial information or crafty web-designers' well-wrought but possibly irrelevant sites. Google's official blog site reports "We have formed an advisory council, made up of healthcare experts from provider organizations, consumer and disease-based groups, physician organizations, research institutions, policy foundations, and other fields. The mission of the Google Health Advisory Council is broadly to help us better understand the problems consumers and providers face every day and offer feedback on product ideas and development." The development is positive for a number of reasons: first, because it demonstrates that Google, a major advertising powerhouse, is taking seriously the consumer's need to genuinely gain from the web experience; second, because it promises new developments wherein advertising is not the sole purpose of web-searching, but rather a return to the privileging of information as the web's real meaning and the eventual standardization of technologies designed to maintain that priority. [s]
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