cato-at-liberty.org - 11/26/2008
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The recent privacy dust-up about Google’s Flu Trends service is interesting - and confounding.
Flu Trends is one of many cool things that can be done with data. By tracking searches that suggest the existence of flu symptoms, Google can identify influenza outbreaks about two weeks ...
Why Google Employees Quit
techcrunch.com 1/18/2009 — In 2008 Google HR set up a private Google Group to ask former employees why they left the company. We’ve been forwarded what appears to be authentic posts to the thread by a number of ex-Googlers, which we reprint below minus identifying ...
Which Google Products Make Money?
blogoscoped.com 1/8/2009 —
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47 Google Products That Don't Make Money On Their Own (GOOG)
alleyinsider.com 1/8/2009 — Insiders credit Google CFO Patrick Pichette -- who when he joined the company said he intended to "feed the winners," and "starve the losers" -- with bringing new disicipline to company. One told us that Patrick has been "taking on a lot of the ...
Google SearchWiki
battellemedia.com 11/21/2008 —
So here we go - Google is jumping into the social media search world. "SearchWiki" is Google's answer to the question "Why can't I make search work the way I want it to work, and share/learn from others doing the same thing?"
But one wonders ...
The cost of First Click Free
roughtype.com 10/21/2008 — The web you see when you go through Google's search engine is no longer the web you see when you don't go through Google's search engine. In a note on my previous post, The Centripetal Web, Seth Finkelstein points to Philipp Lenssen's discussion of a ...
Google Press Center: Press Release
google.com 11/11/2008 — Google Unwraps the Google Pack Free Software Package Offers Users One Stop to Discover, Install and Maintain a Wide Range of Essential PC Programs CES, LAS VEGAS, Nev., January 6, 2006 Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced Google Pack beta, a ...
Debating the Vices and Virtues of Google
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 11/21/2008 — A public debate on whether Google violates its motto "Don't be evil" moves quickly to considering whether the search company is guilty of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Google Apps
google.com 10/17/2008 — Google Apps Service Level Agreement Google Apps SLA . During the Term of the applicable Google Apps Agreement, the Google Apps Covered Services web interface will be operational and available to Customer at least 99.9% of the time in any calendar ...
Google Bandwidth Study Proves Very Little
techliberation.com 12/5/2008 — Precursor LLC released a study that claims to have calculated Google’s total bandwidth use declaring “ Google uses 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for .”
The study is an attempt to foil Google’s pursuit of Net ...
Google to jettison second class citizens —
The Register 11/25/2008
Free massage count unchanged Google has said it will "significantly" reduce the number of contractors on its books. But it claims this has nothing to do with The Meltdown. And it insists there are no plans to layoff full-time employees.…
Google exempts self from Apple rules —
The Register 11/26/2008
Some developers are more equal than others Google has admitted using forbidden APIs to get its iPhone application working, but despite that admission the application remains available on iTunes in apparent breach of the store rules.… Free ...
Video: Behind the Apple-Google API dustup —
CNET News.com 11/26/2008
Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone. What are the implications for developers and for users? Join Charles Cooper ...
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