Max Gladwell

Adding value and making a difference with your Internet search queries. Part I looks at the black-background myth. There is a substantial trend among social entrepreneurs and web startups: harnessing our usage of the web and its many tools for good. In other words, making the everyday things we do across the web count toward [...]

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Wikipedia is grounded in the objectivist philosophies of Ayn Rand, a key inspiration for Max Gladwell. This week, The Economist looks at Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and his new for-profit search startup, Wikia Search. We wrote about the open-source search engine already. Most are familiar with the story behind Wikipedia and its profound contribution to [...]

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New search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales invites the wisdom of the crowd. Though Wikia Search debuted back in January (initially called Wikicities), new features introduced this week are enough of a leap forward to call this the official launch. It is a new search engine that closely resembles the Wikipedia model. Like the [...]

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Ripple.org diverts advertising dollars to charities. All you have to do is click. Can it really be that easy? We’re confident that social entrepreneurs and for-benefit companies will lead the way in addressing issues from poverty and human rights to climate change and corporate malfeasance. This space is particularly hot in the online world, and [...]

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The tech blog TechCrunch alerted us to the controversy surrounding Ecocho, an Australian-based search company that claimed it would plant “up to two” trees for every 1,000 searches. Google just terminated its advertising partnership for what were, at the time of the TechCrunch posting, unknown reasons. The company is now left with Yahoo! as it’s [...]

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