The high priests of free software have congregated at Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) headquarters this week to debate the future of the movement and face down recent patent threats by Microsoft Corp.
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Google introduces Google Hot Trends. Hot trends, as its name implies, provides the hottest current searches updated throughout the day. For each Hot Trend, there are results from Google News, Google Blog Search and web search.
Is Hot Trends show the most often searches for today? the answer is no.
Hot Trends aren’t the search terms people look for most often — those are pretty predictable, like [weather] or [games] or perhaps [myspace]. Yes, [sex] too. Instead, the Hot Trends algorithm analyzes millions of searches to find those that are deviating the most relative to their past traffic. And the outcome is the Hot Trends list.
Hot Trends is currently available only in English, but there are future plans for international versions.
Sergey Brin’s wife, Anne Wojcicki run 23andme, the biotech company lets people take DNA tests to find out about themselves, and even how they may relate to others.
David writes of a blog post by entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, who we’ve heard is well-informed about the project:
Maverick tech entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, for instance, wrote on his blog in January that 23andMe will take in saliva samples through the mail, then subject them to a fast and relatively inexpensive genetic analysis. That data, he suggested, would go into a database that people could search for both personal and scientific reasons — a vision that, if true, would also help explain Google’s involvement, given the company’s oft-stated desire to index all of human knowledge…
Will Google create a DNA search engine for human?
Anshul Samar, the seventh grade student of Lawson Middle School, Cupertino, CA create a game of chemistry Elementeo. This is a video interview by VentureBeat with Anshul Samar.
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Last year Yahoo failed to acquire Mark Zuckerberg company, Facebook. The rumor from telegraph.co.uk said “Yahoo is rumoured to be working on an attempted takeover of Bebo, Britain’s most popular social networking site, which could turn its British-born founder into the next internet billionaire.”
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