NYTimes.com: February 1, 2009 Google Error Sends Warning Worldwide By LIZ ROBBINS Google's Internet search service malfunctioned for nearly 55 minutes Saturday morning, upending users around the world with search results that carried false safety warnings and Web links that...
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CNet: The search engine space is filled with a slew of companies that are vying to become the next Google. What is the "next Google"? It's a search engine that captures the majority of the search engine market--a feat that...
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Fox "News": It took four years for Google to address the "Google bomb" that was lobbed at former President Bush. But it took the Internet behemoth only a few days to defuse the same attack on President Obama. Four years...
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LATimes.com: BOOK REVIEW 'Planet Google' by Randall Stross, 'What Would Google Do?' by Jeff Jarvis A deftly paced analytical effort from Stross; a look at the tenets of Google's Web strategy by Jarvis. By Matthew Shaer January 26, 2009 Asked...
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Cool new video about Google: all that is solid melts into google from Peter Woodbridge on Vimeo....
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WSJ.com: Google Launches a Net Neutrality Test Posted By Amy Schatz On January 28, 2009 @ 3:00 pm In Amy Schatz, FCC, Google | 1 Comment By [1] Amy Schatz For years, advocates of open Internet, or Net Neutrality, rules...
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Savage Minds: ... So what have I learned so far? A few things: 1) The Internet is dead. Well maybe it's not that bad, but the era when simply putting something online guaranteed orders of magnitude more readers/viewers/listeners than normal...
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LATimes.com: Google bomb links Obama profile with 'failure' On his way out, President Bush unintentionally dropped a bomb on President Obama: a "Google bomb." Nuclear bomb Along with an economic crisis and a host of national challenges, Obama inherited a...
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Chris Soghoian gets the White house (yes, THAT White House) to change a policy with in 12 hours! Unfortunately, the policy change is not that great. It still gives Google heavy access to spy on government Web site users. C-Net:...
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Rough Type: All hail the information triumvirate! January 22, 2009 I was reading an interview today with Jorge Cauz, the president of Encyclopedia Britannica, in which he describes some of the Web 2.0-y tools that the company is preparing to...
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New York Review of Books: Volume 56, Number 2 ยท February 12, 2009 Google & the Future of Books By Robert Darnton How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question...
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CNet: January 22, 2009 1:09 White House exempts YouTube from privacy rules Posted by Chris Soghoian The new Web site for Obama's White House is already drawing attention from privacy activists and tech bloggers. While the initial focus has been...
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An interesting collection of reactions. Thanks, Geert!...
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How will this level of customization affect how we learn things?Preferences: Preferred sites About preferred sites The preferred sites feature lets you set your Google Web Search preferences so that your search results match your unique tastes and needs. Fill...
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Pope to have own Google channel with video VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI is getting his own channel on Google. It says the Vatican TV Center and Vatican Radio are collaborating with Google on the...
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This past week I participated in the TPMCafe Book Club, discussing Randall Stross' new book, Planet Google. Also in the conversation were Nick Carr, David Vise, and James Grimmelman. It's been great. Check it out....
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NYTimes.com: Google Trends Falls Victim to Disturbing Stunt By Miguel Helft Google Trends, a service that shows the relative popularity of search terms, fell victim to what appeared to be an ugly stunt on Tuesday: a sketch of an airplane...
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Businessweek.com: Beijing - For months, the Web site China City Map ranked among the top results for the Chinese term "provincial map" on Google (GOOG) and other search engines, including China's No. 1 player, Baidu (BIDU). Then in August, salesmen...
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Back on August 13 2008 I interviewed Vint Cerf, Google's Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist. It was a brief but rich exchange. Here is the text: SV: Good morning, Vint. As you know, I am writing a book...
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