BlogFlockCourthouse News Service: Federal judge largely sides with DOJ in finalizing remedy for Google search monopoly. “A federal judge on Friday released the final terms of a remedial plan meant to address tech giant Google’s monopoly over internet search, just over three months after ruling the company can keep…
Georgia State University: New Study Explains Why People Fall for Fake News . “Researchers from Georgia State’s Robinson College of Business, Kennesaw State University, and the University of Tennessee have developed a model that explains how emotional cues, rather than accuracy, shape the way we consume and share news on…
Indianapolis Public Library: The Indianapolis Public Library Preserves More Than Two Decades of Indiana’s Arts Heritage with Arts Indiana Digitization Project. “Originally launched in 1979 as Arts Insight and concluding publication in 2001 as Arts Indiana, the magazine celebrated and brought together the state’s literary, performing, and visual arts.…
Search Engine Land: Google’s Year in Search 2025: These trending topics spiked big. “Searches starting with ‘tell me about…’ jumped 70% from 2024 to 2025, while ‘how do I…’ queries hit an all-time high with a 25% year-over-year increase, Google said.”
The post Google’s Year in Search 2025: These…Mashable: The 3 biggest AI fails of 2025 — Friend, imaginary summer reading lists, and so many hallucinations. “Generative AI could have written this introduction, but there’s a good chance it would have started hallucinating. Hallucination, which Google failed to mention in its AI-filled 2025 keynote, led to many,…
St. Louis Magazine: Moonlighting librarians save the RFT’s online archive from its post-porn purge. “A newly available digital archive that encompasses much of the recent history of the Riverfront Times went live yesterday. It is the brainchild of Joshua Lawrence and Jaclyn Crow, two St. Louisans with a passion…
Search Engine Land: New AI models are worse at SEO: Benchmark shows sharp accuracy drop in Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT-5.1. “We just ran our AI SEO benchmark across the newest flagship releases – Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro, and ChatGPT-5.1 Thinking – and the results are alarming. For the…
Mezha: Russian Forces Steal 23,000 Artifacts from Kherson Regional Museum. “According to the museum, during the city’s occupation by Russian troops, about 23,000 museum items were stolen from the Kherson Regional Museum…. The occupiers tore tablets from the displays, even stealing models of ancient settlements. Late Paleolithic and Neolithic…
Times of India: 41 years On: Bhopal gas tragedy documented online by Sambhavna Trust. “The Sambhavna Trust Clinic that has been providing free medical care to the survivors of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal for the last 29 years observed the 41st Anniversary of the disaster with the…
The Register: Microsoft mops up Mesh after another metaverse misfire. “As of December 1, mixed reality collaboration platform Microsoft Mesh is no more, and Redmond has directed customers to immersive events in Teams. The writing has been on the wall for Microsoft Mesh for some time. After a lengthy…
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