Remember the ever-so-cute ad that Google ran during the Super Bowl? Now there’s a parody that shows some not-so-cute things you can do using Google’s…
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An answer to Google’s annoying Super Bowl ad
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Issa Presses Web Chief On Personal E-Mail Use To Contact Former Co-Workers
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is pressing White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin to explain his relationship with his former employer, Google. The congressman, who serves as ranking member on the House Oversight Committee,…
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Questions mount about Google’s AdMob deal
More concerns about Google’s $750 million proposed deal to buy mobile advertising company AdMob were raised Tuesday.
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) wrote Jonathan Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, warning that the proposed deal “raises important competition issues which should be reviewed carefully…”
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Ex-Googler Falls Prey to Wonderful Privacy Flaw of Google Buzz
This is a fun story. Andrew McLaughlin, formerly Google’s top lobbyist and currently the deputy CTO in the White House, where he advises President Barack Obama on Internet policy, apparently was aghast to find his…
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Consumer Group Seeks Google, White House E-Mails
Consumer Watchdog said today it filed a Freedom of Information Act request for copies of e-mails traded between the White House’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Google Inc., his former employer. Andrew McLaughlin, previously the…
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April Fool! Parodies on Google or is the joke on us?
Google’s April Fool joke this year – renaming its search site “Topeka” – was a self-congratulatory disappointment compared with some of the funny self-parodies of previous years, for instance, here or here. The mayor of…
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Trust the Census; worry about Google
Census Day – April 1 – got me thinking about the data the Census Bureau compiles about me. Google’s partnership with the bureau got me thinking about who has the most data and who poses…
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Google is committed to openness — for everybody else
Google
continues to demonstrate that when comes to a commitment to openness and transparency the Internet
giant is really talking about holding others to that standard,
certainly not itself.