Science Direct-ly into Google
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| For Google, as with its Books program, the gains to indexing the world's STM
| information revolve around not merely that data itself, but the linkages it
| can form between that data and the other information to which it has access,
| including geospatial information, data from books, historical/timeline data,
| biographical data, government documents, and so forth. Clearly the rewards
| from this mass of material for searchers are tremendous, almost overwhelming.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/science_directl.html
Google now faces scrutiny in Europe, after Microsoft's hypocritical acts.
EU Fines Telefonica Over Web Prices
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| EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said the high fine --
| second only in EU monopoly abuse penalties to the landmark euro497
| million (US$613 million) fine on Microsoft Corp. -- reflected the
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| fact that Telefonica knew it was breaking EU antitrust rules.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070704/eu_telefonica_fine.html?.v=3
They don't have enough lobbying power (for manipulation) in Europe, unlike
Microsoft.
Related (yesterday):
Google-DoubleClick deal draws criticism
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| Europe's major consumer group BEUC said Wednesday that it feared Internet
| search engine Google Inc.'s takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc.
| would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumers' choice of Web
| content.
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| [...]
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| DoubleClick had been the target of a bidding war between Microsoft and
| Google.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070704/ap_on_hi_te/google_doubleclick
EU official joins consultancy serving Microsoft
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-10-03T134311Z_01_L03693228_RTRIDST_0_TECH-MICROSOFT-OFFICIAL.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
US ambassador to the EU was former Microsoft lobbyist
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34706
US politicians go to bat for Microsoft [in Europe]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/microsoft_eu_political_lobbying/
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