roughtype.com - 10/21/2008
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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 new Google service, called First Click Free, ...
searchenginejournal.com - 10/20/2008
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searchenginejournal.com —
Google, I am a very lucky American who
is living the dream of owning or being a
partner in several small businesses. Each of these businesses utilize Google’s GMail and Google Docs, in an effort to cut down on infrastructure costs and keep an ...
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Open Letter to Google : Why Have You Taken Away my ...
readwriteweb.com - 10/20/2008
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readwriteweb.com —
Popular RSS reader Bloglines says it's solved the
much publicized recent problems with feed updating that lead
smaller services to pursue its users and Google Reader triumphalists to declare the RSS reader market all zipped up. It's true that ...
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Bloglines is Back: Vultures and Snobs Can Back Off!
bloomberg.com - 10/21/2008
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Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. , owner
of the world's most popular Internet search site, will
make fewer acquisitions and slow hiring amid the global economic turmoil, Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said. The slowdown means more advertising ...
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Google Being More Careful Amid Slump, Schmidt Says ...
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Nick Carr is wrong on Google - again
mathewingram.com/work —
... Nick Carr has a post on his Rough Type blog in which he whips up a typical sort of doomsday scenario about Google’s use of a policy called “First Click Free.” In a nutshell, this allows publishers to serve up different content to people who arrive through a Google search than they would get if they just arrived the regular way. This is bad, ...
Google's First Click Free: A 'subtle form of lock-in'
The Open Road —
There have always been proprietary corners of the Web. For example, unless you're a subscriber to the online Wall Street Journal, you're locked out of most of the Journal's content.
Google's new First Click Free offering, however, threatens to change this, as Nick Carr points out.
... Originally posted at Blog network editorial
Google takes the first step to closing off the web
The Open Road —
There have always been proprietary corners of the web. For examle, unless you're a subscriber to the online Wall Street Journal, you're locked out of most of the Journal's content.
Google's new First Click Free offering, however, threatens to change this, as Nick Carr points out. ...
Stumped on Where to Vote? Google It!
Google Watch —
... box. When users enter an address, they'll receive complete voter information.
Google's voting site is yet another example of how the search engine has become a Wal-Mart of information, with its spiders crawling and corralling data and content about anything and everything.
The more Google broadens its Web services reach, the more the long tail—the smaller sites looking to offer similar services—becomes marginalized, an idea explored by Nicholas Carr in his great post, "The Centripetal Web."
I'll be blogging on this concept more in the near future because I ...
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Google Bandwidth Study Proves Very Little
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Google Flu Trends and Privacy
cato-at-liberty.org 11/26/2008 — The recent privacy dust-up about Google’s Flu Trends service is interesting - and confounding.
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Why Google’s Partners Should Be Worried
gigaom.com 10/17/2008 — Google today announced its third quarter 2008 earnings - which were in-line with investor expectations, thus giving market a reason to exhale. For the quarter, Google reported net income of $1.35 billion on sales of $5.54 billion.
Google partners ...
How Google Can Fix Company And Stock
alleyinsider.com 11/16/2008 — The bloom has fallen off the Google (GOOG) rose. It is likely to stay off, in our opinion, until Google demonstrates a compelling revenue ramp in a new product that can eventually pick up where the search business is leaving off.
Before we get to ...
Google (GOOG) Strong Q3, Amazing Cash Flow
alleyinsider.com 10/16/2008 —
Initial Analysis: Revenue was in line with estimates, which is a modest upside surprise (Wall Street was expecting a miss). EPS was solidly ahead of estimates, so a strong upside surprise. The upside came from better G&A; expenses, which suggests ...
Yahoo, Google extend DOJ deadline —
CNET News.com 10/21/2008
Yahoo and Google extended the Wednesday deadline for federal antitrust regulators to make a decision on whether to challenge or allow its search advertising deal to move forward, according to a source familiar with the talks.
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