Flotsam & Jetsam
Google’s New York Office A Glorious Catalogue Of Dot-Com Clichés
3:44AM Ryan Tate | Techie office accoutrements like razor scooters and free food faced mass extinction at the end of the last dot-com boom nine years ago. Google brought them back in full force, judging from pictures of its New York office. More »
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Indian Kids Work Cheap For Google
2:49AM Ryan Tate | It’s great that Google has contests awarding money and computers to school children. Less great: It gives the victor in India one-twentieth of what an American kid gets for winning the same contest. More »
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Google’s Search Box Suggestions Hide Nothing
7:38AM Ryan Tate | There are things you don’t tell your husband. There are things you don’t tell your therapist. But virtually everything can go into Google’s search box — for Google to re-broadcast to the world, via its “suggestion” feature. More »
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Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening To Leave Google
4:15AM Ryan Tate | For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within “months”. The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that’s just its way of making search hugely profitable. More »
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Google’s Kid-Friendly Balls
8:50AM Ryan Tate | If Google shows your child its balls, the internet is safe to use. Pro tip!
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People Begging Google To Be Their Stalker
8:37AM Ryan Tate | Google said it can now keep a detailed list of everywhere you go, play your trips back like movies and generate “alerts” for unusual movements. Who wants this? The CIA? Nope: ordinary modern humans are asking to be tracked. Insane. More »
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The Time Marissa Mayer Invented Google
8:55AM Ryan Tate | Another month, another glossy fashion magazine spread for Marissa Mayer, this time in Glamour. We get it already: the Google veep is a computer scientist in Oscar de la Renta, a nerd invited to the high-school formal. Why embellish her achievements? More »
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Old People Talking About The Internet: Rupert Murdoch Edition
3:47AM Ryan Tate | Rupert Murdoch has revealed his secret plan for News Corp. to make money on the internet: Make News Corp. invisible, on the internet. Murdoch will leave The Google, rewrite copyright law, and teach you kids to stay off his lawn! More »
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Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier
6:32AM Ryan Tate | Today Google rolled out the “Google Dashboard”, which is supposed to “protect your privacy” by offering control panels for the company’s many products. But, really, it just scares the crap out of you. Google knows all. More »
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