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Is Google the black hole at the center of the net?

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:49:51 -0700

ZDNet - By Marc Orchant - Jun. 05 (Opinion) - Another day, another announcement about Google pulling the net into its gravity well. Salesforce.com and Google have announced an integration that tightly couple AdWords campaign management into the popular CRM/SFA tool. It's a natural fit and I'm trying not to feel all creepy about this but...

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E-mail monitoring may contravene European laws

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:46:51 -0700

ZDNet - By Tom Espiner - Apr. 12 (News Report) - Monitoring employees' Internet and telephone use at work may contravene human rights laws, after a landmark case in the European Court of Human Rights last week. The case involved a public-sector employee, who won €3,000 Euros in damages and €6,000 Euros in court costs and expenses, after her communications were intercepted by her employer,

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FCC to study need for more Net neutrality regulation

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:06:04 -0700

ZDNet - By Marguerite Reardon - Mar. 22 (News Report) - "Simply because telephone and cable companies are on their best behavior today, while the commission and Congress examine the issue, is no reason to delay action to protect consumers and content providers in the future from the actions of network operators which have said they will split the Internet into a privileged fast lane, and a dirt road for everyone else," Gigi Sohn, president and co-founder of the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, said in a statement.

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Google's achilles heel

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:06:47 -0800

ZDNet - By Phil Wainewright - Dec. 13 (Opinion) - There's a paradox at the heart of Google's success that highlights the location of its Achilles' heel. It makes money because users of its search engine find what they want by clicking on ads. That's right, the ads are better targeted than the search results. It's not so much a search engine company, more an ad engine company. The search engine is almost a smokescreen (indeed, I've argued in the past that Google should spin off its search engine and just concentrate on ads, but the company is making too much money from its vertically integrated play to split up horizontally like that).

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