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Spreading Freedom: Google And The War For The Web

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ryan Grim, Zach Carter, Paul Blumenthal - Sep. 25 (Special Report) - [Google] is now giving money to the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Republican Governors Association, the GOP firm The David All Group, Crossroads Strategies, the Republican Attorneys General Association and the Republican State Leadership Committee, among others. On Thursday, Google and Fox News cosponsored a Republican presidential debate.

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Google+: The Complete Guide

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Mashable - By Ben Parr - Jul. 16 (Special Report) - This guide has everything you'll ever want to know about Google+. Updated regularly. Google+: It’s the hot social network on the block. In just three weeks, Google’s competitor to Facebook and Twitter has amassed more than 10 million users, and its users are sharing more than 1 billion pieces of content daily. It’s become a hotbed for early adopters, tech luminaries, marketers and businesses around the world. Google+ isn’t the easiest thing to understand, though. It has a lot of features that can confuse beginners. Even advanced users can miss a lot of the little gems and nuances that define Google+. That’s why we decided to dig into every aspect of Google+, from Hangouts to Circles, from Google+ for businesses to what’s next for Google’s social network. The result is an extensive guide on all of Google+’s key features, as well as an introduction to the service and the important things you need to know about it. We’ve included commentary, videos, photos and more in our in-depth guide. In addition, we will update this guide regularly with the newest information on Google’s Facebook competitor. So, without further ado, here is Mashable‘s complete guide to Google+

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U.S. lawmakers frustrated by lack of answers about Google Street View Wi-spying

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

iWatch News - Jul. 05 (News Report) - One year ago, following the German government’s demand for more information, Google representatives were forced to admit that the cars were gathering more than harmless pictures; they were systematically gathering data on anyone using a nearby, unsecured Wi-Fi network. If you were within range and surfing the Web without a password, Google took a little electronic snapshot of whatever you were doing.

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Google Ventures, Khosla Make Rain For WeatherBill

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

blogs.wsj.com - By Deborah Gage - Feb. 28 (News) - Google Inc.'s venture capital arm is backing a start-up founded by ex-Googlers that insures farms and other business against the whims of Mother Nature.

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Don’t Be Evil? 10 Ways In Which Google Runs The World

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

infowars.com - By Steve Watson, Paul Watson - Feb. 18 (Special Report) - As far as mega corporations in bed with the government go, Google sits somewhere close to the top of the tree. The company was seeded with CIA money and is literally an a corporate arm of the intelligence community.

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Google developing Groupon competitor called Offers

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

PhysOrg.com - By Dana Wollman - Jan. 21 (News) - Like Groupon Inc., the service, Google Offers, will offer time-limited deals from local vendors, such as restaurants. Ten dollars, for example, might buy $20 worth of food at a local cafe.

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Google donates $5 million for news innovation to Knight Foundation and new international efforts

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Nieman Journalism Lab - By Megan Garber - Oct. 26 (News Report) - Google and news organizations have had a rocky time of it. To overdramatize the situation only slightly: Google insists that it cares about journalism as a necessity of our shared democracy; news organizations resent it as a (perceived) key cause of the financial strife that keeps them from fully defending that democracy. Today, though, brings an olive branch — a multi-million-dollar olive branch: Google is announcing that it will donate $5 million to encourage innovation in digital journalism. The grant will come in two parts: $2 million of it will go to the Knight Foundation, the journalism mega-funder — and $3 million will go to fund international news-innovation efforts, via a partnership with an as-yet-unannounced organization.

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A paper trail of betrayal: Google's net neutrality collapse

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Matthew Lasar - Aug. 11 (News Analysis) - A Tale of Two Googles — we compare Google's earlier filings on net neutrality with this week's Google/Verizon manifesto and ask, "What happened?"

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Google Just Killed Net Neutrality

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Gizmodo - By Brian Barrett - Aug. 05 (Breaking News) - In 2006, Google co-founder Sergey Brin traveled to DC, urging Congress to support net neutrality -- the principle that the internet shouldn't have a fast lane. Google was net neutrality's most powerful advocate. Four years later, they've become its executioner.

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China To Media: Toe the Government Line on Google

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Mike Melanson - Mar. 25 (News Report) - est we forget what is at stake with the situation involving Google and China, the Washington Post has published today a list of directions from the Chinese government sent out to all media outlets on how they are allowed to cover the incident. The rules are a stark reminder of why, no matter how long Google kowtowed to government demands there, the search engine's actions are important for the development of a free society.

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FTC on Google Buzz: Consumer Privacy Cannot Be Run in Beta

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mashable - By Jennifer Van Grove - Mar. 17 (News Report) - Earlier today, FTC commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour cited Google Buzz’s “irresponsible conduct” at launch as an example of how companies are being too careless with consumer privacy and online data.

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Report: 44% Of Google News Visitors Scan Headlines, Don’t Click Through

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

TechCrunch - By Robin Wauters - Jan. 19 (News Report) - Research firm Outsell has published its third annual News Users’ report, which is based on a survey about the online and offline news preferences of 2,787 US news consumers. The Outsell report unsurprisingly predicts ongoing, steep drops in US

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Google puts its foot down.

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Rconversation - Jan. 12 (News Report) - Google's announcement that it will "review" its business operations in China and is no longer willing to censor its Chinese search engine, Google.cn, is generating a range of reaction in China. Conversation over at the #googlecn hashtag on Twitter - created shortly after the announcement - has been raging fast and furious. The Chinese Twittersphere - comprised exclusively of people who are tech savvy enough to know how to get around censorship or they wouldn't be there - is generally cheering the news. Some need no translation, like this one which says: "Google's Do No Evil vs. CPC's Do No.1 Evil"(CPC means "Communist Party of China"). There's a report that the Tsinghua University security department has announced that students can't take flowers to Google without permission. Another person reports that all the Chinese Internet portals have been told by authorities that they're only allowed to use Xinhua News Agency and People's Daily reports on the subject - they're not allowed to use reports from other sources, and they should not feature today's news about Google on the front pages of their sites. Here is a report on how somebody posted a translation of Google's announcement on the Chinese web portal, Netease, and it was censored. One person suggests that leaving China frees up Google to focus on building the anti-censorship business instead of the censorship business.

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Google's biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URL

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Ars Technica - Jan. 08 (News) - The Nexus One is a sharp-looking smartphone, but, as nice as it is, it is the least significant thing that Google announced today. The real news is Google's online store, and what it means for the US wireless industry.

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What's a Fair Share In the Age of Google?

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - By Peter Osnos - Jul. 15 (Special Report) - The buzz inside Google is overwhelmingly positive about what the company does and how we will all benefit from the results—including the embattled denizens of newspapers and magazines who increasingly see Google as an enabler of their demise. Barely a decade ago, Google received its first $25 million investment, based on search technology developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the company’s cofounders. By the time it went public just five years later, “Google” was a verb. Today it is the dominant force in what has turned out to be the central organizing principle of the Internet’s impact on our lives: the search function and the accompanying links, keywords, and advertising that make sense and commerce out of the vast universe of information and entertainment on the Web. Google is as important today as were Microsoft, IBM, and the original AT&T, linchpins of our culture and economy, in the development of modern computation and communications.

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Is Google about to swallow up Digg?

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Valleywag - Jun. 15 (Special Report) - Google's cupcake princess, Marissa Mayer, and Kevin Rose, the playboy of the Webhead world, would make an awfully cute couple. Not romantically -- the two are dating other people at the moment. But we hear Mayer is pushing hard for an acquisition of Rose's Digg, for a price below $200 million. Kara Swisher hinted a few days ago that the social news site, on which users "digg" or "bury" their favorite news headlines, might be on Google's shopping list. Mayer's goal: to use what Digg has learned to fix Google News which, while popular, doesn't make Google any money. (Digg CEO Jay Adelson would not comment on the sale rumor, but did disclose that he was having a "delicious" In 'N' Out burger for lunch.) What's interesting is the timing. A source familiar with the talks says Google and Digg reached an agreement last month; it's not clear whether the offer was verbal or a formal termsheet. So why the delay? One possibility: Digg may have been exploring whether it could hire a rock-star CEO and raise more money. Adelson has long been flying cross-country, twice a month, to San Francisco from his upstate New York home, and privately complains about the commute to friends. But so far, I've heard nothing about Digg raising a new venture-capital round, or Adelson making way for a higher-profile hire.

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FCC sets 700MHz auction rules: limited open access, no wholesale requirement

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:08:49 -0700

Ars Technica - By Nate Anderson - Jul. 31 (News Analysis) - As Commissioner Michael Copps put it, the FCC needs to set "ground rules for how some of the most valuable spectrum on earth will be used." Around 80MHz of high-quality spectrum is being auctioned off early next year, and the FCC has devised two separate plans to deal with those frequencies. The agency wants to create a national broadband network focused on public safety that will bring true interoperability to all public safety agencies around the country. But the FCC also wants to spur commercial wireless innovation, especially when it comes to creating a "third pipe" for broadband that can provide an alternative to cable/DSL duopoly that prevails in most of the country.

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Finally, Google and Schmidt go 'All In'

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:01:36 -0700

GigaOM - By Paul Kapustka - Jul. 23 (News Analysis) - Friday's letter from Eric Schmidt to the FCC was something telecom wonks have been waiting for: Google has not just stepped up to the lobbying table, it has pushed in its entire stack of chips, challenging the incumbent telco status quo in a way no other entity out there can. And by making it personal at the highest executive level, Schmidt has taken another important step: he has made telecom and communications a hot-button priority issue, guaranteeing its entry into mainstream business and political discourse.

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Google - The Ultimate Money Making Machine

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:28:26 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Alex Iskold - Apr. 11 (Special Report) - In addition to being one of the top three online destinations, Google - through its text ads strategy - has managed to weave itself into the very fabric of the Web. In doing this, the company freed itself from even Internet geography and became ubiquitous. By empowering companies and individuals to publish Google ads on their sites, Google solved the unlimited supply and demand problem in one fell swoop. So how does Google compare to Starbucks, which is a very good money making machine in the real world? The key differences between Google and Starbucks are: * Starbucks spends money on expansion, but Google ads spread themselves; * Starbucks spends a lot of money on maintenance, Google spends little; * Starbucks spends money on marketing, but businesses flock to Google because it just works; * Starbucks relies on people, Google relies on software. These differences make Google by far the more attractive business, compared to Starbucks. To put it simply, Google has almost no friction.

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Google Actively Aiding Intelligence Agencies?

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:05:00 -0800

Ars Technica - By Nate Anderson - Oct. 30 (News Report) - Former intelligence officer Robert David Steele recently appeared on the Alex Jones show to make the provocative claim that Google is currently cooperating with secret elements in the US government, including the CIA. Steele, who now runs OSS.net and is a proponent of open source intelligence, said that "Google has made a very important strategic mistake in dealing with the secret elements of the U.S. government—that is a huge mistake and I'm hoping they'll work their way out of it and basically cut that relationship off." In his view, Google's attempt earlier this year to avoid turning over information to the Department of Justice was little more than a hypocritical charade. Steele has made these claims for some time; back in January, he said the same things at a conference organized by his company at which several sources came forward and spoke about the alleged cooperation. According to security site HSToday.us, which had a reporter in attendance at the conference, one unnamed security contractor "said three employees of an intelligence agency he declined to identify are in Mountain View, Calif. where Google is based, working with the company to leverage the search engine company's user data monitoring capability in the interests of national security."

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Don't you dare google, says Google

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:34:22 -0700

The Inquirer - By Mike Magee - Aug. 14 (News Report) - Web search outfit Google, fired off a bunch of legal letters warning folk to cease and desist from using the word Google as a verb. A spokeGoogle said the company thinks, "It's important to make the distinction between using the word Google to describe using Google to search the Internet, and using the word Google to describe searching the Internet." "It has some serious trademark issues," he added, according to the Independent. But while some say Google - the company - is having a laugh, others are worried that the geeky-imaged outfit it getting too much like a typical bullyish corporation.

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Don't Look Now, But It's Happening

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 06:50:36 -0800

SearchBlog - Jan. 18 (News Analysis) - From my book, written a year or so ago: As we move our data to the servers at Amazon.com, Hotmail.com, Yahoo.com, and Gmail.com, we are making an implicit bargain, one that the public at large is either entirely content with, or, more likely, one that most have not taken much to heart. That bargain is...

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