Google's Tipping Point

Taken in a vacuum, a fairly trivial thing happened a few days ago. The co-founder of Firefox, Blake Ross, wrote a post criticizing Google called "Tip: Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose". He takes issue with a new Google search feature that promotes certain ... Full Story »

Posted by Fabrice Florin
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Subjects: Business, Sci/Tech
Topics: Internet, Google
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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Dec 31, 2006 - 4:50 PM PST
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Jan 2, 2007 - 7:12 AM PST

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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008
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by Markus Schmidt - Oct. 1, 2008

Opinioned article about why google is held to higher standards than most companies and what they should do. Not much background or research or something, more like a typical blog post.

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by Hank Roberts - Oct. 1, 2008

My comment's on the followups -- these are developing and interesting. They make the story worth reading. Ignore the "five star average" graphic -- any number there would mislead, because I'm not commenting on the story. Comment -- read it for the comments; so far this is a good thread.

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