I’m very disappointed in the Google board’s recommended decision to reject a shareholder request for a human rights committee and anti-censorship rules. These decisions make Google’s claims to be improving search around the globe ring somewhat … hollow: Official Google Blog: Making search better in Catalonia, … Continue reading
Over at Webguild I blogged about Google Sky, the new Astronomy mapping tool from Google that has come out before the much anticipated Microsoft World Wide Telescope project which is not available yet. I’ll be doing most of my technology and … Continue reading
Hal Varian is an economist at Google, and I’m sure he’s a good one. However his Freakonomics and Google blog analysis of why Google has done so well in search leaves a lot to be desired. After knocking down a … Continue reading
Google is the big news today with two major product initiatives. The first is Google’s entry into the health records management business with trial recordkeeping at a Cleveland hospital. AP reports The second Google development is adsense for video, yet another attempt … Continue reading
Posting a blogger.com fix I just struggled with for some time. This sounds more complicated than it is but I could find little online to help me, so hopefully I’ll save somebody future time with this post. I wanted to run … Continue reading
Thanks to Danny Sullivan for picking up a clever way to access WSJ articles without a subscription (and perfectly legally as well) by using Google News to find the articles and then clicking through to the stories. As TechDirt reported a few … Continue reading
Megan McCarthy reports at Wired today that Google may be picking up Plaxo for 200 million. A few hours later Caroline McCarthy at CNET shoots down the rumor saying it appears unfounded. Wazzup with all these McCarthys? Are they … Continue reading
Google has launched a local news service that scans local news items for context and then lists them according to relevance to your city or zip code query at Google News. Testing this today on a few Oregon cities I’ve … Continue reading
Reuters reports that Yahoo really wants to find a way out of the MS deal, and Google is offering *something* though it’s not at all clear to any outsiders what that something is. Probably a partnership to help Yahoo monetize … Continue reading
Google’s concerned that Microsoft could poison Yahoo and make it less open, a state of affairs Google feels created both Yahoo and Google. I’m sympathetic to some degree to their points, though I think Google has more than enough internet opacity … Continue reading
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