Tootfinder

Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/863710/google-search-antitrust-monopoly-ap…

Google is appealing a judge’s search monopoly ruling
Google filed a notice to appeal Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling calling it an illegal search monopolist and requesting to pause some of his ordered remedies.

The next presentation at #12Clouds was...me (see https://ian.im/12c25). After that, Raghu Shankar walked up to the front and started presenting about deploying vector databases for similarity search.

another reason I love @KagiHQ :
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven #AI slop detection in #Kagi Search
https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop

I'm trying to convert my mom to @… browser, but it keeps failing. Latest episode:
"Vivaldi is useless. I can't book train tickets on Wikipedia!!"
*Somehow* my mom switched the default search engine to Wikipedia.

Sources: UK ministers will begin the search for a new Ofcom chair this week; current chair Michael Grade's single term expires in April 2026 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6ab2facb-8a7a-4657-8884-e6c99280db99

Bing's web crawler is a true putz of the Internet.
By-the-way, various other search engines use Bing as the underlying web crawler, so this is far from being a Microsoft issue.
Bing's web crawler refuses to index content that does not meet its standards.
And what are those standards? It is that pages contain a bunch of meta tags and such.
Well, some of my archival content was written around 1995, long before those meta tags were conceived.
Thus, from Bi…

Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. GPT-5.2's 34.5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/goog

Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app | TechCrunch
Google is making Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and oAI model for Search

I tried to disable the "Game Bar" that pops up when you press Windows G... what a rabbit hole. I'm rarely on Windows and I know to stay away now. All search results on all those useless Windows sites are wrong. Microsoft removed the option to disable the hotkey from its system settings! On Windows Pro you could use a group policy. After some f-word-riddled Copilot prompting the bot admitted that there's no way to disable the hotkey except for editing the registry.

Gibt zwar immer noch nicht viele Beiträge in meinem Blog, aber das Bettersearch-Plugin von #Typemill, das ich gerade aktiviert habe, ist echt super. Übersichtlich strukturiert, sehr schnell, einfach aktiviert und kommt ohne Google oder externe Tools aus, da es die JS-Bibliothek lunr.js verwendet. Wenn ihr auch eine Maker-Lizenz habt, solltet ihr das Plugin ausprobieren.

Thinking about attending Berlin Buzzwords? Don't miss out! #bbuzz provides many resources and perks, especially for newcomers in data science, AI, and search.
Find out why and register for June 7-9: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/join-bbuzz-rhd/

Homeland Security Searches Lesley University Dormitory
https://binj.news/2026/01/15/homeland-security-searches-lesley-university-dormitory/

Searching For Sarah MacDiarmid
It’s been over 35 years since the night Sarah MacDiarmid vanished from the Kananook railway station on Wednesday, 11 July 1990...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/searching-for-sarah-macdi…

Now you can search in the Epstein documents yourself.
#epstein

The great thing about search in social media is you can always check if someone has made your devastatingly insightful or funny remark before. It's usually multiple times, too, rather than zero.
(Post, search, delete: done it again)

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

yall check out what @… just dropped
"this script will search through the list of towns with 500 people or more that I found on geonames.org and give you a random location, based on how populous that town and that country are."

OpenAI's chief communications officer Hannah Wong will leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-communications-officer-hannah-…

OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.

From RI State senator Sam Zurier:

This rock wrote some seriously based shit you should definitely read!
🔗 #Anarchism

The Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press files a US court application to access the sealed warrant justifying the raid on Hannah Natanson's home (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/trump-search-washington-post-reporter-home-…

Reporters Committee Seeks Judicial Records Of Warrant Served To Search Washington Post Reporter’s Home
The Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press wants documents related to the search of Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home unsealed.

I have changed people's lives by pointing them to svgrepo.
https://www.svgrepo.com/

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
ChatGPT-Prompts tauchten offenbar in der Google Search Console auf

Someone built an indexed & vectorized index & a conversational AI for the Epstein Files.
Never mind Qs like "How many times was Trump mentioned?" Try asking it complex tasks & questions that require intelligent reasoning like, "Is there any evidence..."
https://epstein.trynia.ai/

A post from the archive 📫:
Using Visual Studio to search objects in a memory dump
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/using-visual-studio-to-search-objects-in-a-memory-dump

Pornhub is being extorted by ShinyHunters after the search and watch history of its Premium members was reportedly stolen in a recent Mixpanel data breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Many journalists say the FBI raid on a WaPo reporter's home is a jarring new step to limit media's ability to gather information the government wants to hide (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/15/fbi-search-reporters-r…

Journalists confront new reality in reporting after FBI raid
Many saw the FBI search of a Washington Post reporter’s home as a jarring new step aimed at limiting their ability to gather information.

trec_web: TREC WT10g (2003)
A web graph network originally constructed in 2003 as a testbed for information-retrieval techniques, including web search engines. Distributed by University of Glasgow.
This network has 1601787 nodes and 8063026 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net…

Looking for a Mise plugin for Nx: #Mise #Nx

when you just bored and hanging out with a ginger kid and a bird, but everyone think you sus.
source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/458982

Great post by Aaron Tay: 'the next time you see an “AI-powered search engine,” maybe the first question shouldn’t be “Is this AI?” but rather “What kind of AI, “where and how it is used in the pipeline”.'
From: @…

Aaron Tay (@aarontay@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image [Last blog post of 2025] "AI-powered search" hides at least 4 different things—post-retrieval features, semantic search, LLM ranking, and synthesis. Your concerns about one may not apply to another. New post unpacking what's actually under the hood. https://aarontay.substack.com/p/what-do-we-actually-mean-by-ai-powered

I love how Fediverse apps like #Peertube and Mastodon are connected and you can like videos from Mastodon. However, the user experience sucks. If I'm on a Peertube page I need to have an account on that server to be able to like videos.
To avoid that, I need to paste the Peertube URL into Mastodon's search to see the video's post and I can like it from there.

After `apt upgrade; shutdown -r` I've never heard again from lib.rs server.
I've restored a fresh one from a backup, but it's going to be wonky for a while due to cold caches and rebuilding of search index.

Politico Global EIC John Harris tells staff he will move into a new role as chairman and begin a search for a new EIC, who will be named "at some point in 2026" (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo

Politico’s John Harris Moves Into Chairman Role, Search Begins for New Editor in Chief
The announcement comes days after the company laid off 3% of its staff

Any chance the UK might also start looking at the effective Google search monopoly?
We are supposed to be independent of the EU now, but all that seems to mean is that we are in thrall to the US instead.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl95eg33k1o

Every year, Craig Wills analyzes faculty search ads to assess current and future CS faculty needs
https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cew/papers/CSareas26.pdf

Brand Visibility in AI cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne https://marketoonist.com/2026/01/brand-visibility-in-ai.html

Mullvad is shutting down Leta a search proxy for Google and brave.
#leta

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

Eines der plakativen Wechselrezepte für #diday ist (auf deren Webseite), die Suchmaschine von Google zu Ecosia zu wechseln. Das sind die mit dem Bäumchen pflanzen. Wenn man dann mal nachschaut, wo Ecosia ihre Suchergebnisse her hat: "Search results and related ads on Ecosia come from our partners Microsoft Bing, Google and EUSP."
Quelle:

Will no one rid me of this turbulent search engine? https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/01/google-dont-make-bite-sized-content-for-llms-if-you-care-about-search-rank/

Not hiking today but trying out qwant.com as complete European search engine. I'm curious...

ChatGPT-Prompts tauchten offenbar in der Google Search Console auf
ChatGPT leitete Prompts offenbar ungeschützt an die Google-Suche weiter. OpenAI bestätigt das nicht direkt, will aber einen entsprechenden Fehler behoben haben.
…

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Seize the opportunity to submit your proposal for this year's Berlin Buzzwords and be part of Europe’s leading conference for modern data infrastructure, search, and machine learning.
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Viele gucken nur auf die Ladezeit einer Website oder eines Webshops auf Nutzer-Ebene — also wie schnell die Seite für den Nutzer lädt. Fehler! 🙀
Für SEO ist es aber viel relevanter, wie schnell der Webserver auf Anfragen von Google und anderen Crawlern 🕷️ reagiert. Braucht das zu lange, kostet es Google mehr Ressourcen und Geld.
Die Seite ist dann weniger interessant und verliert Sichtbarkeit und Klicks aus der Google Suche.
Google Search Console > Einstellungen > Cra…

The Perverse Beauty of Regex: A Love Letter to the World’s Most Efficient Torture Device
— by @…
🔣 https://www.<…

The Perverse Beauty of Regex: A Love Letter to the World’s Most Efficient Torture Device
It starts innocently. You just want to search for something. A word, a phone number, perhaps the occasional email address belonging to your former classmate who still owes you £60 for books. You could do this the normal way, with a search box like a civilised human, or you could

Supreme Connections:
Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Using the new database from @…, you can now search for organizations and people that have paid the justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.

Supreme Connections (home)
Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.

An interview with security expert Runa Sandvik on the FBI search of a WaPo reporter's home and seizure of devices, and how journalists should reassess security (Maddy Crowell/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/ha…

The home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter, was searched by the FBI. Her devices were seized. Runa Sandvik, whose life’s work is protecting journalists’ digital security, assesses the damage—and what news organizations need to know.
The home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter, was searched by the FBI. Her devices were seized. Runa Sandvik, whose life’s work is protecting journalists’ digital security, assesses the damage—and what news organizations need to know.

📈 #LogsQL query language provides fast full-text search, advanced analytics, and data extraction/transformation at query time. Can be combined with Unix tools like grep, less, sort, and jq for log analysis.
🎯 Optimized for high cardinality fields like trace_id, user_id, and ip addresses. Supports logs with hundreds of fields (wide events), multitenancy, out-of-order ingestion, live taili…

Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence, linking to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to provide context-aware responses, for paid users (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-gemini-personal-intelligence/

Gemini's new Personal Intelligence will look through your emails and photos - if you let it
Can the feature do what Apple Intelligence promised? Here's what it will and won't have access to, and how it'll impact privacy.

Nice piece on 'Prototyping semantic search for case law' by PhD student Caitlin Wilson working with the National Archives: 'a user searching for 'divorce' may be shown legal alternatives like '[decree] nisi,' or searching for 'compensation' will suggest terms like 'damages,' or 'reparation''

Prototyping semantic search for case law
PhD student Caitlin Wilson showcases the latest results from her research into an accessible search function for The National Archives' Find Case Law service.

FBI warrant: the Hannah Natanson home search is tied to a probe into a system administrator with top secret clearance accused of retaining classified reports (Perry Stein/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/14…

FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home
The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.

Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/tech-…

Apple and Qualcomm fret over strained supplies of Japan's glass cloth
Surge in demand from AI giants like Nvidia send companies in search of new sources

Just a reminder:
Each of you ought to take a look at your state's "unclaimed property" website. You may find something owed to you or to someone you know.
The amounts can be trivial or they can be large - and you won't know until you check.
Usually getting the funds owed to you is as simple as filling out a government form on a web page (and perhaps submitting something that proves you are who you say you are.)
Here is the link for California:

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 9815 nodes and 318298 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Eines der plakativen Wechselrezepte für #diday ist (auf deren Webseite), die Suchmaschine von Google zu Ecosia zu wechseln. Das sind die mit dem Bäumchen pflanzen. Wenn man dann mal nachschaut, wo Ecosia ihre Suchergebnisse her hat: "Search results and related ads on Ecosia come from our partners Microsoft Bing, Google and EUSP."
Quelle:

For today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent here's a tiny tool we have used in our pipeline: pyRenamer is a simple app to rename/renumber a bunch of files.
Unfortunately it's pretty much an abandoned fork of a Python 2 app that has been abandoned for even longer ago. It still works and for renumbering there's no easier solution at hand. But for file name search & replace …

ChatGPT is useful for getting the average of the information in its weights on a given topic
Grok (Expert) is useful for filtering search engine slop into a summary with relevant, sourced, checkable web links
Neither of these necessarily produce The Truth, but in this example, Grok generates significantly more reliable output when precision matters. As time goes on and the volume of hallucinated nonsense on the Web mounts higher, Grok's ability to attribute its assertions t…

Explore some wild web pages.
BTW marginalia is also a search engine.
#links

One of the great advantages of blogging (or even micro-blogging) is that when I painfully resolve a problem for which online searching yielded no solution, and then I forget the solution, the next time I search I find the solution ("oh yeah, that idiot again!").

lotta images i posted lately where im curious abt their origins but fail to determine it thru reverse image search

B-O-B-B-O-B-B-O-B... Bob Myers reveals they also pulled in Dave Roberts, coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers to help select Bob Chesney.
▶️ Bob Myers talks Bob Chesney search, UCLA's financial commitment, much more
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZkdfsjV61Rg&si=K6lvwyJ…

I loved @jasonclark.bsky.social 's #FF2025 'problem statement':
'We were given access to a weirdly confident intern that can’t explain how they got their answers.
It is a seamless interface that breaks search interaction retrieval patterns.'

{ "jason": "clark" } (@jasonclark.bsky.social)
Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)." Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NHCuyuPd9KK3QUo8izeta2CMIk-rmcy1/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=103883366387427181221&rtpof=true&sd=true Code: https://github.com/jasonclark/agentic-search-react

Sources: the FBI searched WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's home, as part of what officials called an investigation into possible sharing of government secrets (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/fbi-washington-post-journalist.…

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents
It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of classified disclosures, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home.

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li

The Little-Known Search and Browser Startup Generating $100 Million in Annualized Revenue
Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Australia begins consultations with publishers and platforms on its News Bargaining Incentive, requiring Big Tech to pay local publishers or face new taxes (April Ossington/Channel News)
https://www.channelnews.com.au/australia-m

channelnews : Australia Moves to Make Tech Giants Pay for News As Google Faces New Scrutiny In Europe
Global technology companies are facing mounting regulatory pressure, with the Albanese government moving ahead on new laws that would force platforms like Facebook, Google and TikTok to pay for Australian news content, just as Google faces a fresh competition probe in Europe. Under the federal government’s proposed News Bargaining Incentive, social media and search companies... Read More

The EU opens a DMA investigation into Google over allegedly demoting news outlets with promotional content; Google says this is part of its anti-spam efforts (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Chartbeat data: global Google search referrals to publishers fell by 33% in the year ending November 2025, with US-specific organic search traffic down 38% (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-…

Google traffic dropped by a third in 2025, new Chartbeat data show
Google search traffic was down globally by a third in the year to November, according to new Chartbeat data.

Zurich-based DeepJudge, which builds customized search indexes for law firms that plug into AI tools like ChatGPT, raised a $41M Series A at a $300M valuation (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2025…

Meet The Ex-Google Researchers Building AI Search For Law Firms
Legal tech startup DeepJudge has raised $41 million to build out customized search engines for law firms.

Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize "top stories" in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ro

Google rolling out Preferred Sources globally and announces Spotlighting subscriptions
Spotlighting subscriptions are coming to Gemini first and then AI Mode and AI Overviews within Google Search.

The EU opens a DMA investigation into Google over allegedly demoting news outlets with promotional content; Google says this is part of its anti-spam efforts (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 17845 nodes and 789779 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/

Shopify Rolls Out Ad Network for Millions of Merchants
The e-commerce giant is opening up search and post-checkout ads in storefronts.

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 8699 nodes and 317814 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize "top stories" in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ro

Google rolling out Preferred Sources globally and announces Spotlighting subscriptions
Spotlighting subscriptions are coming to Gemini first and then AI Mode and AI Overviews within Google Search.

The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, to let publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841222/rsl-licensing-ai-spec-launch

A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official
A licensing standard aimed at making AI companies pay for the content they scrape across the web is now official. With the publication of the RSL 1.0 spec, publishers can dictate licensing rules and indicate whether they want their content to appear in AI search.

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Instagram appears to be generating often misleading SEO-style headlines and long descriptions for users' Instagram posts, appearing in Google Search results (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/instagram-is-generating-inaccurate-seo-bait…

Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.

Instagram appears to be generating often misleading SEO-style headlines and long descriptions for users' Instagram posts, appearing in Google Search results (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/instagram-is-generating-inaccurate-seo-bait…

Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.

Sources: the EU is preparing to probe Google over news publisher rankings in search over claims that Google demotes sites with "third party" promotional content (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/644edfe6-ccba-466a-bc93-e82f59e124df

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Google adds Gemini's Deep Search to Google Finance, which will also have prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket for event analysis, first in the US (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-finance…

Google Finance wants to become your smartest investing assistant with these new features
Google Finance is getting Deep Search as well as prediction markets data from Kalshi and Polymarket, alongside an international expansion.

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/

Shopify Rolls Out Ad Network for Millions of Merchants
The e-commerce giant is opening up search and post-checkout ads in storefronts.

Reddit surpasses TikTok as the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, likely driven by changes to Google's search algorithms and AI deals (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/re…

The RSL Collective, backed by Ziff Davis, Yahoo, and others, launches RSL 1.0, to let publishers set licensing and compensation rules for AI web crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841222/rsl-licensing-ai-spec-launch

A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official
A licensing standard aimed at making AI companies pay for the content they scrape across the web is now official. With the publication of the RSL 1.0 spec, publishers can dictate licensing rules and indicate whether they want their content to appear in AI search.

A survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50% of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services (Ofcom)
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-and-attitudes/online-h…

Tailwind CSS lays off 75% of its engineers after Google traffic to its documentation fell 40% since early 2023 due to AI, leading to an 80% decrease in revenue (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
https://www.seroundtable.com/tailwind-css-google-drop-40725.html

Tailwind CSS Lets Go 75% Of Engineers After 40% Traffic Drop From Google
Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind CSS posted that he had to let go of 75% (from 4 people now down to 1) of his engineering team because of AI. He said traffic to the Tailwind help documentation is d

Sources: Tony Dokoupil is set to be the next CBS Evening News anchor beginning in the new year, despite an external search for a high-profile star (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/david-ellison-david-zaslav-warner-bros-paramount-bids<…

Ellison’s Endgame
What began as quiet courtship by David Ellison has morphed into a hostile takeover attempt of Warner Bros. Discovery—with the battle only likely to get messier in the days ahead.

Microsoft launches Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and others; Shopify merchants are automatically enrolled (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-launches-copilot…

Microsoft launches Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents
These new agentic experiences were showcased at the NRF 2026 conference.

Ubisoft closes its mobile-focused Halifax studio weeks after majority of the workers voted to unionize, as CWA Canada says it is "demanding information" (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubis…

Ubisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after devs vote to unionize
Workers at the Canadian studio voted to unionize in December in search of security in an era of 'studio closures, layoffs, and increasing instability.

Reddit surpasses TikTok as the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, likely driven by changes to Google's search algorithms and AI deals (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/re…

Google removed 749M URLs linked to Anna's Archive, a popular shadow library for pirated books, over copyright claims, representing ~5% of all takedown requests (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-m…

You.com CEO Richard Socher is working on a new AI lab to automate AI research, and, sources say, hopes to raise $1B for it; Socher will remain at You.com (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/com-ceo-socher-seeks-1-billion-new-ai-lab

You.com CEO Socher Seeks $1 Billion for New AI Lab
Richard Socher, CEO of AI search startup You.com and a former chief scientist at Salesforce, hopes to raise around $1 billion for a new AI research startup he will oversee, said two people who spoke to senior staff at You.com. Socher will remain at the helm of You.com, he said in an interview. ...

Snap reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $1.51B vs. $1.49B est., DAUs up 8% to 477M vs. 476M est., and announces a $500M share buyback; SNAP jumps 23% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/snap-q3-earnings-report-2025.html

Snap shares rocket 25% on strong forecast, $400 million Perplexity deal
Perplexity AI will pay the social media company $400 million over 1 year to integrate the AI startup's search features into Snapchat in 2026, Snap said.

Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/reddit-advertisers-ai-search-visibility-deck/

Brands Rush to Reddit, Boosting Ad Spend and Gaming AI Search
A leaked deck shows paid ads on Reddit can boost AI search visibility as the platform becomes more relevant than ever.