WSJ.com: Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm Ex-Entrepreneur Hired To Assist in Setup; Brand-Name Advantage By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO July 31, 2008; Page B8 Google Inc. is working on plans to start a venture-capital arm, according to several people...
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Official Google Blog: We knew the web was big... 7/25/2008 10:12:00 AM We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index...
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I used Google Trends to compare search volume for John McCain and a rash. Here is what I found. Apparently, rashes are almost as popular as McCain in Austin, Texas. And Australians are much more concerned about rashes than McCain....
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I spent most of yesterday playing around with Google's newest competitor, . I did a series of searches on Cuil and compared them with Google. The results, when I could get past the server crashes cause by the rush of...
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MarketWatch: Five reasons Cuil won't kill Google...yet Commentary: Search challenger faces huge odds By MarketWatch Last update: 10:12 a.m. EDT July 28, 2008 LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Privacy advocates and proponents of greater competition will be relieved to know a rival...
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John Wilkin thinks not: Our hidden digital libraries 1 Two of my very talented colleagues, Kat Hagedorn and Josh Santelli, just published a nice piece in D-Lib entitled "Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs." Kat and Josh and I...
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baltimoresun.com: baltimoresun.com When jurors Google Easy access to news, criminal records and legal jargon raises questions about courtroom integrity By Julie Bykowicz Sun reporter July 27, 2008 Some of the grand jurors investigating allegations of misconduct by Baltimore Mayor Sheila...
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PressDemocrat.com: Smile, you're on Google Some residents cringe as Internet giant takes and posts photos of remote Sonoma County neighborhoods By NATHAN HALVERSON THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Published: Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 26, 2008...
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Reuters: Italy may charge Google executives Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:32pm BST (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges in a 2006 case against four Google executives over a video on the Internet provider's Italian-language site, the...
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Can you remember your first time? (The Googlization of Everything): Ariel on July 24, 2008 3:53 PM: i remember i was drunk and looking for porn...
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Journalistopia: If today's launch of Google's Knol is any indication, this line of thinking has fundamentally changed. Google, in short, is becoming a full-fledged media company in direct competition with established news and knowledge sites. Knol âshort for âknowledgeâ is...
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Techdirt: Is Google's Proprietary Tech Stack Destroying Its Acquisitions? from the not-invented-at-Google-syndrome dept While Google has bought plenty of small startups, almost none of those deals have amounted to very much. It almost seems like most of the startups disappear...
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Do you remember the first time you used Google? When was it? How did you hear about Google? What was you first impression? Please use the comments to tell me stories. As Mudbone (Richard Pryor's character) used to say, "you...
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Official Google Blog: Knol is open to everyone 7/23/2008 10:31:00 AM A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those...
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BBC NEWS: Google 'UK's top consumer brand' Internet search engine Google has become the UK's top brand for the first time, according to a consumer survey. It moved up two places from last year's poll, beating Microsoft into second place...
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InformationWeek: Google Is Watching, Perhaps Soon In Your Home Researchers propose gathering personal data by tracking people's activities at home through home network interactions. By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek July 11, 2008 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208808510 Undeterred by the persistent worries of privacy...
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Geert Lovink informs me that this t-shirt is popping up all over Amsterdam....
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!=: Google: "Privacy? Depends: where are you?" A gaggle of campaigners (NAI, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Michael Zimmer, etc) push Google to add a link to its privacy policy on its home page, and Googleâs refusal sparks snark: for example, âLarry...
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InfoWorld | Bill Snyder: Warning: Google is becoming Microsoft's evil twin During its year of jousting with Microsoft, Google learned a lot from the software giant. Too bad it picked up Redmond's bad behaviors -- behaviors that are bad for...
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The Associated Press: Lions Gate to share ad revenue on clips on YouTube By RYAN NAKASHIMA – 14 hours ago BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. said Wednesday that it will partner with filmmaker Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. to...
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CNET News.com: Why it matters what Chad Hurley watches Posted by Greg Sandoval 23 comments What will it mean for YouTube if founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have, like many of us, entertained themselves by watching pirated videos found...
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Chronicle.com: Library of Congress: Laws Need Revision to Encourage Digital Preservation Countries should change their laws and policies to encourage digital preservation of copyrighted works, according to a report released today by the Library of Congress. It drafted the report...
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The Boston Globe: Stopping Google With one company now the world's chief gateway to information, some critics are hatching ways to fight its influence By Drake Bennett | June 22, 2008 GOOGLE MAY BE widely admired for its technical wizardry...
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The Laboratorium: The Google Dilemma I’ve posted online my latest draft, The Google Dilemma. It’s based on a couple of talks I gave this spring—one to a group of high-school students and one to a group of law students. Very...
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Los Angeles Times 4chan sprays Google with "scientology" and a nasty insult 01:32 PM PT, Jul 13 2008 Googlebomb 4chan's directions for the Hot Trends prank. This formulation, where a set of steps end with "???" and then "profit" is...
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Google Librarian Central: Endless summer Friday, July 11, 2008 9:28 AM Posted by Bethany Poole, Product Marketing Manager As you may have noticed, we've taken a somewhat leisurely summer break here at Librarian Central. We've been thinking about how to...
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Seattle Times Newspaper: Swastika tops Google searches By David Sarno Los Angeles Times The swastika, the symbol of Nazism, still provokes strong feelings of fear and anger. So it was something of a shock when late last week the swastika...
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washingtonpost.com: The Issue Of Trust Is With Google, Not Viacom Michael Arrington TechCrunch.com Saturday, July 12, 2008; 2:58 PM Earlier this month Louis L. Stanton, the senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New...
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CNET News.com: Google, Viacom now clashing over YouTube employee records Posted by Greg Sandoval 12 comments Update: at 9:05 p.m. PDT Saturday to include Viacom's response. Viacom wants to know which videos YouTube employees have watched and uploaded to the...
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Telegraph: Are Google's street views a burglar's charter? By Jenny McCartney Last Updated: 12:01am BST 13/07/2008 In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the hero, Winston Smith, starts out by hating Big Brother, and ends up - in a moment of...
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CHINA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: ... Google’s share of the Chinese search market pales into insignificance compared to its local arch-nemesis Baidu. Google holds a mere 25% of the search market in China; Baidu, by contrast, controls more than 60%. Foreign observers...
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SFGate: Google's political head-fake Richard Bennett Wednesday, July 9, 2008 The devil's best trick is to persuade us that he doesn't exist, but Google only has to convince us that it's not evil. Nearing an agreement with Yahoo to grab...
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Slashdot | Google Open Sources Its Data Interchange Format: A number of readers have noted Google's open sourcing of their internal data interchange format, called Protocol Buffers (here's the code and the doc). Google elevator statement for Protocol Buffers is...
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csmonitor.com: The field narrows for e-books As Microsoft backs away from digitizing old texts, some worry that a single company could privatize world knowledge. By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff Writer for The Christian Science Monitor / July 11, 2008...
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Official Google Blog: Introduction to Google Search Quality 5/20/2008 06:20:00 PM Posted by Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. Our job is clear: A...
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Popular Science: Crunching massive, geographical data visualizations used to require expensive mapping software and powerful computers. Now, Google Earth is becoming the go-to application for scientists who need a cheap way to animate huge sets of 3-D data right on...
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Vint Cerf Wonders If We Need To Nationalize the Internet. Well, for one thing, it's not national. It's global. Secondly, "the Internet" is not a thing. It's a set of connections and contracts based on standards and protocols. So what...
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YouTube - Eric Schmidt in Conversation with Ken Auletta...
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YouTube - Google Book Search: UC Library Partnership...
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YouTube - Jane Horvath Testifies before Senate Commerce Committee...
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Developer Sergey Solyanik writing at his blog, 1-800-MAGIC: Back to Microsoft Last week I left Google to go back to Microsoft, where I started this Monday (and so not surprisingly, I was too busy to blog about it). I think...
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PC World: Why Google Has Lost Its Mojo Google has become just another fat, happy, and even arrogant company. Preston Gralla, Computerworld.com Jul 7, 2008 5:25 pm Google went from startup to behemoth in record time. But there are increasing...
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Wired.com: Google's Long Reach Muddles Boardroom Picture By Josh McHugh, Portfolio.com Email 23 hours ago News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Ballmer and Icahn, B.F.F.'s Top Coder Lands a Top Job Heroes and Zeros in Corporate America Subscribe to Portfolio...
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Stolen data live on in Google searches: (07-06) 17:35 PDT -- A Colorado woman logged on to her computer in April, voted on a CNN poll, shopped for airline tickets and calculated payments for a $25,000 car loan from Wells...
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washingtonpost.com: Gmail's Mysterious Grey Box Michael Arrington TechCrunch.com Sunday, July 6, 2008; 11:46 AM There's a small grey box rendered in an iFrame in the top left hand corner of Gmail, and TechCrunchIT is trying to figure out what...
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BBC NEWS: Google faces 'Street View block' Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner. Street View matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the photograph...
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Los Angeles Times: Google has made peace with privacy advocates, and it did so without cluttering up its famously sparse home page. The search giant had drawn criticism over its refusal to include a link to its privacy policy on...
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NYTimes.com: On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble By JOE NOCERA Two months ago, Google held a series of secret focus groups with employees who have children in Google’s day care facilities. The purpose was to gauge their reaction...
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WSJ.com: Google Lawyers Look to Hide YouTube-User Identification By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO and MERISSA MARR July 4, 2008 6:57 a.m. Lawyers for Google Inc. Thursday asked Viacom Inc. for permission to better hide information that might help personally identify YouTube...
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msnbc.com: Is anyone worried about the Google ad gorilla? Posted: Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:05 PM by Eve Tahmincioglu Filed Under: Marketing, Financing, Back office, Tech watch Last week a congressional panel brought together small business representatives to discuss the...
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Michael Froomkin has the dish: I was interviewed today for this afternoon’s edition of Marketplace; of course you never know if they’ll use it or not. The topic was the strange — and to my mind wrongly decided — decision...
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From Our Delhi Struggle: The bloggers found this sari for sale in a mall in Gurgaon, the tech hub south of Delhi. I found out this sari was designed by the famous designer Satya Paul. It's actually an "Oogle" design,...
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Check out Microsoft Searches For Meaning In Powerset. I am not so sure this is the answer. Any thoughts?...
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Library Stuff: How Google Used Librarians…and Got Away With It June 29th, 2008 I know when I’m being used. It’s a learned trait after being used many times by friends, family, and colleagues. Exactly one year ago today, the Google...
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