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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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We Can Think Of Several Hundred Million Other Reasons
6:15AM Gabriel Snyder | Auletta: Google feared buying the NYT would “sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine”.
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Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
4:01AM Ryan Tate | Who amputated Google? For one my laptop, running Firefox and Windows, the buttons for “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” were amputated from Google.com. Instead, there’s this taunting minimalist slogan… More »
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How To Blow $US3.5 Billion
6:43AM Ryan Tate | Yahoo finally shuttered Geocities today. Acquired in 1999, Geocities was one of the costliest dot-com duds of of all time: $US3.5 billion for an ugly, cash-bleeding homepage hosting service. And to think Google’s founders were simultaneously begging server funds. More »
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Bing Heats Google Ice Queen
3:41AM Ryan Tate | It’s been 10 years since Microsoft decisively buried Netscape, and Silicon Valley is still frightened of the monster in Redmond, Washington. Even giant Google is paranoid; the company is increasingly said to be chasing Microsoft’s tail lights. More »
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Desperate Fiends Paying To Have Google “Big Brother” Their Lives
7:15AM Foster Kamer | Google — Sauron of the internet, world, and soon: Middle Earth’s tech scene — will soon have your life on file, especially with the advent of Google Wave, which is still in the invite stage. People are now paying for invites. More »
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Any Data You Give To Google Can And Will Be Used Against You
3:21AM Ryan Tate | The uber-geeks who run Google don’t seem like to think about the messy world of law and politics. But it can’t be avoided. The latest example: A Bear Stearns manager done in by a GMail account he thought was closed. More »
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Deflating Google
4:28AM Ryan Tate | Once upon a time, search engines were cluttered. A scrappy upstart called “Google” surpassed them with a minimalist interface. Ten years later, Google still has a minimalist interface… if you install a popular javascript bookmark. Progress!
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Selling Your Tweets To The Enemy
3:30AM Ryan Tate | Tech bloggers are in a tizzy over the prospect of tech giants Google or Microsoft getting real-time access to the thoughts of Twitterers, but Valleywag has learned that cash-hungry Twitter is already selling access to its “firehose” of data. More »
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