Everybody Lies & Google Search Data Is Digital Truth Serum (video)

Google Is Digital Truth Serum

L2inc.com video above published on Nov 16, 2017: What do Google searches and Facebook posts reveal about the human psyche? Everybody Lies author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz delves into the internet's hidden truths in this special edition of Winners and Losers.

What others say about the book Everybody Lies:

“This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind . . . an unprecedented peek into people’s psyches . . . Time and again my preconceptions about my country and my species were turned upside-down by Stephens-Davidowitz’s discoveries . . . endlessly fascinating.” — Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature

“Move over Freakonomics. Move over Moneyball. This brilliant book is the best demonstration yet of how big data plus cleverness can illuminate and then move the world. Read it and you’ll see life in a new way.” — Lawrence Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University

“Everybody Lies relies on big data to rip the veneer of what we like to think of as our civilized selves. A book that is fascinating, shocking, sometimes horrifying, but above all, revealing.” — Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants

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New gTLD Domain Names, Separating Truth from Fiction

One would expect that a "former COO" of a Wall Street firm (now bankrupt) who is involved with one of the more expensive new gTLDs--dot LUXURY--would know better than to make, or allow others to make, claims about her new gTLD, her "brand" in the new gTLDs marketplace, that don't "check out"--after all, false claims are one sure way to taint a brand--

Rush for ‘luxury’ domain names continues | New York Post: "... [Monica] Kirchner, a former COO of Lehman Brothers, told Julie Earle-Levine that she and her partners won an auction for the domain rights and are selling them to companies. Tiffany, Armani, Four Seasons, Bitcoin, Berkshire Hathaway and Hermès are among 1,250 companies that have signed on to dot-luxury and will use the luxury domain extension instead of, or together with “.com.”..." (emphasis added)

As of December 7, 2014, here are the results from just checking ICANN's WHOIS and testing whether each cited company domain name (in the .COM and .LUXURY extensions), "resolves" to an actual web page--

tiffany.com (real website--authentic)                    
tiffany.luxury (resolves to blank page)

armani.com (real website--authentic)                    
armani.luxury Go Daddy Parked Page
WHOIS: Original Query: armani.luxury
Registrant Contact: individual in Barbados (Caribbean Island)--no apparent connection to the Armani brand

fourseasons.com (real website--authentic)            
fourseasons.luxury available at Namecheap for $488.88

bitcoin.com (real website--authentic)
Registrant Contact Name: individual in Santa Clara, California
bitcoin.luxury Go Daddy Parked Page
Registrant Contact Name: individual in Australia

berkshirehathaway.com (real website--authentic)  
berkshirehathaway.luxury available at Namecheap for $488.88

hermes.com (real website--authentic)                      
hermes.luxury "work in progress" (under construction page)

None of the dot Luxury domain names cited in the New York Post story above are being used  "instead of, or together with “.com," while two are "available for registration" and more than one is registered by a registrant with no apparent connection to the "named brand company."

Note to all the new gTLD proponents, hucksters, whatever--if this is the best the new gTLDs can do, they are in deeper trouble than even I imagined! As they say: Get Real, get honest, or go home!

As for Ms. Kirchner, she might want to consider hiring a PR firm with a "fact checker."


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