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Google raised search to a new level last week with Knowledge Graph – the first generation of the search engine to understand and incorporate search for things rather than just words. At Dominion Strategies, we see a stunning opportunity here for advocates to engage more directly when users search on issue-related queries. Knowledge Graph can …

Every so often someone comes up with a new take on digital search that raises fundamental questions about great resources people might be missing based on the way search results are generated by the most popular search engines. Wired’s Webmonkey blog reported on just such an idea last week: Million Short will shave off the …

  According to Google, “high quality content is content that you can send to your child to learn something.” By raising standards for producers and driving progress in terms of content quality, Google Panda, Google’s current search results ranking algorithm, will increase the quality expectations of users over time.    

  Facebook’s EdgeRank and Google’s algorithms have many implications for how businesses, non-profits, and citizens share and receive information. “News Feed Optimization” will soon become just as important as search engine optimization for most organizations.  This TED talk with Eli Pariser points to the need to understand “filter bubbles.”