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August 16, 2010

Monday, August 16, 2010 11:14 AM/EST

Google CEO Schmidt Rekindles Privacy Fears with AI Talk

Google has some Matrix- or Inception-like ideal that its search engine will become so personalized that people's behaviors will be guided by the search algorithms anticipating the human impulse and then acting on it.

January 1, 2010

Friday, January 01, 2010 12:01 AM/EST

Google Exec Wonders How Google Maps Navigation Could Be Evil

This is my first blog post of 2010, so Happy New Year everyone! For the love of brevity, not everything Google's Bradley Horowitz and I discussed made it into my eWEEK piece, so I chose to table a couple more items here.

December 21, 2009

Monday, December 21, 2009 9:06 AM/EST

Apple, Microsoft to Unite vs. Google When Hell Freezes Over

With Windows Mobile sinking and Bing a meager 10% factor in search, I'm not sure Apple would be inclined to throw any lifelines to Microsoft, which needs the help. Apple frankly doesn't need Microsoft's help.

July 25, 2009

Saturday, July 25, 2009 7:14 AM/EST

Digg's Kevin Rose to Ask Google's Marissa Mayer About Bing, Biggest Threat and Skynet

Digg's Kevin Rose will ask Google's Marissa Mayer about data collection practices, Bing, Wolfram Alpha, ISP bottlenecks, exciting beta products and Skynet. Check out the questions in full here ...

June 13, 2009

Saturday, June 13, 2009 7:50 AM/EST

Clint Boulton Back from High-tech Hiatus to Grok Google

Boulton back covering Google for Google Watch, targeting Microsoft Bing Google Wave, WolframAlpha and more in the coming weeks.

March 16, 2009

Monday, March 16, 2009 5:50 PM/EST

Google's Gears Grind Slowly

Fellow GARDers*, it is said that the gears of the gods grind slowly, which means that while they may take their sweet time, they inexorably get wherever they intend. * GARD=Google Attention and Reaction District Google is dead serious about...

Monday, March 16, 2009 10:47 AM/EST

Introduction to Google on GARD

Hi, Some of you may remember me from my days writing for the E-Piphanies blog now so ably managed by Stephen Wellman and Jack Margo. I will now be following in the footsteps of the inestimable Clint Boulton, and I...

January 26, 2009

Monday, January 26, 2009 10:35 AM/EST

Writer Says Google Book Search Deal Has Monopoly Potential

Another writer has stumbled upon the notion that Google has the potential for monopoly power, citing the search giant's Google Book Search settlement. Google's power continues to grow, and it's detailed, wide-eyed illumination from folks like Darnton who will footnote federal antitrust lawsuits versus Google in the future.

January 21, 2009

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:17 AM/EST

Google Gives Up on Print Ads... What Goes Next?

Google yesterday put the kibosh on its two-year-old program to sell ads in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and The San Jose Mercury News. Print advertising has been on the decline for years, gouged by online advertising. We're in a recession that is only worsening. Is anyone surprised that a Web services giant would excise a marginally important ad program?

January 2, 2009

Friday, January 02, 2009 10:04 AM/EST

Programmers Run Google Android on Asus EEEPC 1000H Netbook

Programmers compiled Android for an Asus EEEPC 1000H netbook in four hours. Perhaps, with a little help from Google and the Open Handset Alliance, a big rollout of Android netbooks in 2009 isn't looking so suspect after all. This would open a new chapter in Google's war on Microsoft for computing customers.

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