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From globalvoices.com, here is one account. Anyone have any more info on GSV in Japan?...
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Frank Pasquale writes: Seven Reasons to Doubt Competition in the General Search Engine Market Posted by Frank Pasquale · March 18th, 2009 · No Comments New books on Google by Randall Stross, Alexander Halavais, and Jeff Jarvis have been getting...
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TechCrunch: Editor's note: The following is a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The views he expresses are his own, and we present them here to...
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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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NYTimes.com: Bits Blog calls this a "Defining Moment of 2008: Google's offer to help Yahoo fend off Microsoft's hostile takeover bid." This is a nice summary....
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Newsweek: Economic growth requires innovation. Trouble is, Washington is practically designed to resist it. Built into the DNA of the most important agencies created to protect innovation, is an almost irresistible urge to protect the most powerful instead. The FCC...
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Isen.blog: Bogus WSJ Story on Net Neutrality Today's Wall Street Journal has a bogus, misleading story claiming that Google has been making deals with telephone and cable carriers that violate Network Neutrality. My bullshit detector was triggered by paragraph five,...
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If you need any more evidence that Rupert Murdoch's low standards of evidence are infecting what was until recently the greatest newspaper in the world, you only need to take a look at the fallout from this story in...
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Cavalier Daily Citing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s technological savvy and technology policies, Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt expressed his support for the Illinois senator yesterday at the Law School. Schmidt and Obama’s technology advisor Julius Genachowski made a...
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NYTimes.com: Digital Domain Can’t Open Your E-Mailbox? Good Luck By RANDALL STROSS LOGGING on to Gmail or other e-mail service has become a routine of daily life, completed without a thought. What would you do, however, if you woke up...
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eweek.com: Google Explains How Green Is Good for Its Data Centers = Green has been very, very good to Google. That's the theme of Google's new Web site on data center efficiency. On the site, Google explains how the cost...
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CNET News: Sandy Litvack, a dogged trustbuster in pursuit of Google Posted by Dawn Kawamoto Google and Yahoo are household names. But, Sandy Litvack? Not so much. While Litvack may be obscure to the general public, he is well-known in...
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SFGate: ... Google invested $1 billion in AOL in 2005 to secure its advertising business and push aside competitors Microsoft and Yahoo. The 5 percent stake valued AOL at $20 billion. But Google's announcement in an SEC filing acknowledged what...
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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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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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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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Is this really the way to go?...
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Neil Netanel writing at Balkinization: Is Google the New "Media Monopoly"? Neil Netanel Microsoft's hastily renewed courtship with Yahoo --this time centered on a merger of the companies' search advertising businesses -- in order to compete more effectively with search...
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Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog Data Centers Are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds By Steve Lohr The world’s data centers are projected to surpass the airline industry as...
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Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog: ... The “Starting Point” idea, as Ms. Decker explained it, implies two breaks from Yahoo’s past. First, instead of spreading the peanut butter of its efforts across hundreds of sites, it will...
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Greg Lastowka wonders: ... But despite my concerns about the easy way reporters seem to associate Google with the greater body of useful knowledge that it indexes, I’m actually starting to see a closer connection between Google and the Web....
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Frank Pasquale explains: I have a paper forthcoming on how some regulatory moves now could help assure that the “leveling effect” of companies like Google persistently helps society generally–rather than just transferring wealth from creators to new intermediaries. (I’ll get...
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Danah Boyd writes: a google horror story: what happens when you are disappeared Earlier this week, an acquaintance of mine found himself trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare, a nightmare that should make all of us stop and think. He wants...
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Part of the problem with using this blog to write my book is that many readers -- and even I -- expect me to react to big news in blogspeed. Alas, writing a book demands thinking in bookspeed. Otherwise I...
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IEEE Spectrum: The Gray Areas of Search-Engine Law: The Gray Areas of Search-Engine Law By Mark Anderson First Published January 2008 U.S. law has not caught up with search-engine technology and its implications 29 January 2008—The law is always playing...
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This is pretty funny....
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SSRN-Federal Search Commission? Access, Fairness and Accountability in the Law of Search: FRANK A. PASQUALE III Seton Hall University - School of Law OREN BRACHA University of Texas at Austin - School of Law July 23, 2007 U of Texas...
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Over at Techdirt Tim Lee assures us that most of the problems that Google Book Search critics have cited will be worked out through the magic of competition. After all, he reminds us, there are other services like the OCA...
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Google Public Policy Blog: Candidates at Google: Barack Obama: ...He reaffirmed his support for network neutrality, saying: "The Internet is perhaps the most open network in history. We have to keep it that way." Obama laid out a detailed package...
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GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself: We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but...
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Michael Stevenson wrote this and linked to it in the comments for the entry below: ... Two years ago, Google implemented the nofollow html attribute to prevent this very same comment spam. Nofollow is the default setting for comments on...
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I read this on CogDogBlog: It took less than 5 hours after a recent blog post for this first link farm spam trackback to arrive. As bad as that is, the give credit to someone else or am I really...
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I have been cataloging the various interests around the world who are finding cause to be upset at Google for its various ventures. I have to say, this story gets the award for the most heat and the least light:...
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When it comes to financials, Alan Rimm-Kaufman writing over at Search Engine Land thinks it should: An Open Letter To Google Dear Sergey, Larry, and Eric— Think about increasing Google's transparency. Consider what your company would look like if you...
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Gizmodo reports: Google is not leaving anything to chance, and according to an Australian newspaper is now planning to span the Pacific Ocean with its own undersea fiber optics cable to blast the world with its do-no-evil goodness. Owning a...
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