Tag: Google
Searching For A Good Book Made Easier
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 01:23:54 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
At (US)$125 million, it may be the biggest book deal ever. Google blinked and settled two lawsuits which had represented the main road bumps in the path of its project to digitize just about every book ever printed. The settlement sets up the mechanism to ensure copyright holders get paid and allows Google's project to proceed. It's being hailed as "historic" by Google. At the same time, it leaves unanswered the question of whether the search giant had violated any the law in the first place.
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Google Re-Re-Ignites the Browser Wars
profwhat.
Posted to Business on Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 03:13:25 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
Meeting a need that no one realized they had, Google has unleashed a new web browser upon the world: Chrome. It offers a clean interface, really fast performance, crash protection, fast performance, an Opera-like "speed dial," and also, did I mention, fast performance.
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Please Make That Story Disappear
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Sun Aug 17, 2008 at 09:50:53 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Shakespear Feyissa is learning a few lessons. Lesson one is that your actions can have unintended consequences. Lesson two, once something gets reported on the internet, it's awfully tough to expunge. Feyissa, a practicing Seattle lawyer, says something that happened over ten years ago is causing him pain and anguish because it can easily be googled. He says the original controversy blew over, so how about deleting that report? Problem being that the report in question is in a school newspaper archive. And the student journalists say once reported, forever archived
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All Your Privacy Belongs To Google
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Sun Aug 03, 2008 at 07:25:19 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It's a misconception that Google ever said "Do No Evil." What the search giant, so ubiquitous it has become a verb describing its primary service, does say is "it is possible to make money without doing evil (scroll down to #6)." But there's a couple in Pittsburgh who don't agree with that. Aaron and Christine Boring believe that one Google feature has a less than noble effect - it has taken away their privacy. Google responds, "privacy doesn't exist." In the Borings' opinion, that is pretty evil.
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Feel Lucky? Try To Google Google's Privacy Policy.
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 12:11:22 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It all started with a minor blow up between a trade group and the internet search giant over publicizing Google's privacy policy. In the course of a week, it has gone from that minor blow up to an active assault on Google over its lack of complying with industry standards on publishing their privacy policies. Further, their failure isn't simply a case of not keeping up with industry standards, they're also breaking the law.
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Scroogled: What If Google Was Evil?
logan.
Posted to SciTech on Thu Sep 27, 2007 at 11:46:15 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It's rare that a Science Fiction short story is actually scary, but Cory Doctorow's Scroogled is truly frightening. The premise is simple: what if Google were evil?
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Attack of the copies
rEvolution inAction.
Posted to Media on Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 01:25:33 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Three of the most used web services are being torn apart by the legal ramifications of copyright. YouTube (owned by Google), GoogleNews, and MySpace have all seen the writing on the wall (or been handed a judgment) regarding the unauthorized usage of copyrighted materials by their sites. YouTube and MySpace have the same problem, their users are posting copyrighted videos and both have started to act on it. GoogleNews has dug its own grave after losing a recent court case in Belgium.
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Trees And Things...Branching Out
Board of Directors.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Feb 13, 2007 at 03:32:32 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
In its final meeting of 2006, the TnT Board formed a committee to explore avenues for testing out the effectiveness of google's "adwords" advertising in increasing the size of the TnT community.
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YoooooouTube?
profwhat.
Posted to Business on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 02:36:52 AM EST. RSS.
For most of us, the words "YouTube" and "$1.65 billion" do not go naturally into the same sentence. The phrases "pet videos," "small-time copyright infringement," and "low-grade amateur porn" seem to fit better. But now the Valley is swinging like it's 1999 again: Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.
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