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I will be on this show Thursday night: In the next CNBC Original, Maria Bartiromo takes viewers Inside The Mind of Google for a rare look at the world's most powerful technology company and its crown jewel, the Google Internet...
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CNet: March 31, 2009 8:00 AM PDT Wales giving up on Wikia Search by Rafe Needleman Wikia is announcing on Tuesday that it is closing the Wikia Search product. The service was intended to be a user-generated search engine, through...
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Eric Schmidt on the BBC: Some very interesting declarations about Google's vision of the perfect search....
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On September 8, 2007, a reporter for an obscure news company called Income Securities Advisors typed "bankruptcy 2008" into a Google search box. Google News service instantly alerted the reporter to an article from the a newspaper called the South...
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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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Cool new video about Google: all that is solid melts into google from Peter Woodbridge on Vimeo....
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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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An interesting collection of reactions. Thanks, Geert!...
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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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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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Here is a nice post from the ">Official Google Blog about how Google took over the Santa tracking efforts on the Web. Yes Virginia. Even Santa has been Googlized....
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Google: 2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist As the year comes to a close, it's time to look at the big events, memorable moments and emerging trends that captivated us in 2008. As it happens, studying the aggregation of the billions of...
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NYTimes.com: David Carr writes: ... If Google owns me, it's probably because I am in favor of what works. "I'm glad to hear it," said Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, who was in New York last week....
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Harry Lewis, computer science professor at Harvard at the co-author of a very important book called Blown to Bits has written this op-ed in BostonHerald.com: Inaccuracies in an instant Plane Truth: United Airlines stock swooned due to online error By...
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PC World: MSN Taking the Brunt of Google's US Search Blitz Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:10 PM PDT Google continued to grab U.S. Internet search market share at a record pace in July, with Microsoft's...
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From Frank Pasquale: Dominant Intermediariesâ Future: Monopoly Responsibility August 2nd, 2008 · Posted by Frank Pasquale · No Comments After giving testimony at a Congressional hearing on Competition on the Internet, I began to wonderâhas anyone done an intellectual history...
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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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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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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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Geert Lovink informs me that this t-shirt is popping up all over Amsterdam....
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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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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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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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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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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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Google, of course. ... Ken Powell, Chairman and CEO of General Mills notes, "Reputation can be measured in recognition, employee recruitment and retention, even stock price multiple. But in the end, we believe the most important measure is trust. General...
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City Room: Something Google Doesn’t Want You to See By Jennifer 8. Lee Published: May 19, 2008 Something Google doesn't want you to see: a glimpse of the Lego creations at the Internet company's New York offices, including colorful...
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Seth Finkelstein in The Guardian: There's a cliche that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The latest iteration of the "Wikia Search" project might be summed up as "when you have a Wikipedia, everything looks like...
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Google is at the forefront of encouraging women to enter technical careers and rise in management. Kudos on this program: Google Announces Winners of Scholarships for Female Technology Students Google recently announced the winners of the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships,...
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From Tom Friedman back in 2003: ... Since 9/11 the world has felt increasingly fragmented. Reading the papers, one senses that many Americans are emotionally withdrawing from the world and that the world is drifting away from America. The powerful...
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From a blog called Capitol Bill: Who is Jacob and who is Esau? I'm doing week 10, on line applications. While I wait for my after registration Google e-mail invite, I wrote a poem. We thought it was free So...
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Whimsley: Mr. Google's Guidebook: ... Was I surprised! The biography was a revelation. I don't get out often these days (it's the gout) and I am now woefully out of touch, but it turns out that there is more to...
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A couple of weeks ago, when I spoke at Duke University, I met a smart dude named Andy Russell. He is a historian of technology and Research Fellow at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. After my...
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Crooked Timber » » Magic Eight Ball of the Internets In a moment of search engine ennui, I typed this into the Google search box: whatever I'm looking for, I won't find it here. First up was the nutty Tom...
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TCS Daily - Google the Destroyer: ... In The Google Enigma, tech guru Nicholas Carr notes: "The many businesses that see Google as an actual or potential competitor include software houses, advertising agencies, telephone companies, newspapers, TV networks, book publishers,...
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From Digital Natives: When we talk about Digital Natives, are we just talking about privileged kids with access to technology? Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of an upcoming book on Google, thinks so: "Invoking generations invariably demands an exclusive focus on people...
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From Techdirt: Google's PageRank Works Like Our Brains We've joked in the past about how Google effectively acts as a a secondary or "backup" brain for many people. However, perhaps it wasn't so much of a joke. New research on...
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Over on his blog, Print is Dead, Jeff Gomez writes: ... I might agree that being digitally adept maybe isn’t generational, but there’s no way you can say that kids today aren’t Digital Natives. It’s a fact. From the moment...
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Google at the gas pump - CNN.com SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Lost drivers in the United States soon will be able to Google for help at the pump. Drivers at 3,500 U.S. gas stations soon will be able to...
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SearchEngineWatch: Inside Google Zeitgeist: Google's Annual Partner Summit: Google Zeitgeist is not your typical partner summit. Advertising? Doesn't really make the agenda until day two. Search? Not a dedicated topic at all. Instead, in inimitable Google style, last week's Zeitgeist...
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The Politics of Systems, a very interesting blog, published this: being critical I have recently been thinking quite a lot about what it means to be “critical”. At a lot of the conferences I go to, the term is used...
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Google Shares Shoot Past - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog Google Shares Shoot Past $600 By Miguel Helft Tags: Google Google Stocks(MarketWatch) Google stock’s upward march continued today as its shares crossed the symbolic $600 mark for...
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This is an old story, from back in May. But I think it's worth revisiting. Digital Masonry By Scott McLemee Jacques-Alain Miller has delivered unto us his thoughts on Google. In case the name does not signify, Jacques-Alain Miller is...
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Geert Lovink is one of my favorite people. He is a premier intellectual and a true humanist. Geert hipped me to his recent post: Weizenbaum and the Society of the Query: Weizenbaum and the Society of the Query A spectre...
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