Inside Google

Online views soar in overwhelming response to Inside Google video

John M. Simpson

Response to our video “Don’t Be Evil?” lampooning Google and its CEO Eric Schmidt’s attitude toward privacy has been overwhelming since we launched it with a jumbotron digital ad in New York’s Times Square last week. Views  soared past the quarter million mark on Monday of the three-day holiday weekend. The satirical video shows Schmidt […]

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Consumers pondering Google/Viacom ruling

Margot Williams

A federal court decision this week throwing out Viacom’s’ $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube, has consumers and copyright holders wondering about its implications. (Viacom says it will appeal.)

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News Clipping

Australian news video calls Google “a company on steroids”

By John M. Simpson

A video produced by Hungry Beast, a weekly news show on Australian television puts Internet giant ...

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News Clipping

“Google HomeView” arrives in Germany

By John M. Simpson

Many Germans have objected strenuously to Google's Street View service saying that it is an improper invasion of their privacy. Now there's a delightful ...

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News Clipping

An answer to Google’s annoying Super Bowl ad

By John M. Simpson

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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Google is committed to openness — for everybody else

John M. Simpson

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.

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What is Google hiding?

John M. Simpson

Thousands of pages of documents were unsealed in U.S. Court in New York Thursday in the $1 billion copyright infringement suit filed against YouTube and ...

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Candidates Find Incumbent Advantage Extends To Web

Sara Jerome

Thirteen years in the House and a stint as majority leader have furnished Rep.Roy Blunt, R-Mo., with useful GOP and K Street support for his Senate bid. But Blunt's long resume also means a boost from another source: Google. Google's overwhelming dominance of the search market has brought its power to determine marketplace outcomes under new scrutiny this year. Tech company Foundem and other so-called "search neutrality" advocates allege that the search engine is gaining an unfair advantage by favoring its own products in searches. The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog wrote the Justice Department last week urging it to investigate the issue, while the European Commission is already checking out complaints from Foundem and others.

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Google tries to highlight competition in SEC filing

John M. Simpson

Google, under antitrust scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Justice, the ...

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Google’s European troubles and one good thing about the Italian case

John M. Simpson

Google has taken a one-two punch to the chin this week from Europe first with the news that the European Commission is probing the Internet giant for possible antitrust violations followed by the conviction of three top executives for invasion of...

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