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googleblog.blogspot.com - 11/21/2008

Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own

— googleblog.blogspot.com — Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it. Or ... (more) Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own

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webguild.org - 11/24/2008

Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected

— webguild.org — Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources. Since August, hundreds of employees have been laid off and there are reports that about 500 of them were recruiters for Google. By law, ... (more) Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected

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techcrunch.com - 11/21/2008

Google, It Wasn’t Broke

— techcrunch.com — Bucket tests and experimental products are one thing. But to mess with the real Google search is serious stuff. Why did they do it? Google’s overall search share has grown substantially this year (and all other years since it went live). ... (more) Google, It Wasn’t Broke

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Is Google Evil?
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — Here’s a nice discussion from the New York Times’ Bits Blog—and a debate held this week by Intelligence Squared US. The arguments, naturally, centered around Google’s purported motto: “Don’t be evil.” Everything from corporate identity to workplace policies to business behavior was fair game. The Bits summary of the arguments included seven deadly sins of Google and eight of its virtues (both of which I hope were delivered tongue-in-cheek). Sins, complete with Latin, from Siva Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor at ...

Defending Google, the video
BuzzMachine — ... of my presentation at the NPR Intelligence Squared debate on whether Google violates its “don’t be evil” motto: I am responding to Siva Vaidhyanathan’s inspired recitation of Google’s execution of the seven deadly sins; I answered with eight virtues. More videos are here. Here’s a transcript. The audio will be up soon. Saul Hansell of the Times Bits Blog covered the debate and then followed up with Google CEO Eric Schmidt making the point I ...