Everybody loves Google Apps. Google provides highly available web applications that help you communicate, organize and collaborate from anywhere using different interfaces in the most user friendly and efficient way, without being worried about any IT issues. However, some people still hesitate using Google services because of privacy and trust issues. In this paper, we identify privacy issues ...

We construct the Google matrix of the entire Twitter network, dated by July 2009, and analyze its spectrum and eigenstate properties including the PageRank and CheiRank vectors and 2DRanking of all nodes. Our studies show much stronger inter-connectivity between top PageRank nodes for the Twitter network compared to the networks of Wikipedia and British Universities studied previously. Our anal...

Cyrill Osterwalder has been the privacy engineering lead at Google since 2010. His responsibilities at Google include ensuring that effective privacy controls are built into products and internal practices. Before Google, Cyrill was Vice President of the web application security division at Phion. Phion acquired the Web application security company Visonys in 2008 which Cyrill co-founded. Cyril...

Rudi Cilibrasi and Paul Vitanyi have demonstrated that it is possible to extract the meaning of words from the world-wide-web. To achieve this, they rely on the number of webpages that are found through a Google search containing a given word and they associate the page count to the probability that the word appears on a webpage. Thus, conditional probabilities allow them to correlate one word ...

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com) provides a new method of locating potentially relevant articles on a given subject by identifying subsequent articles that cite a previously published article. An important feature of Google Scholar is that researchers can use it to trace interconnections among authors citing articles on the same topic and to determine the frequency with which others c...