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[News] All Your Information Belongs to Google

  • Subject: [News] All Your Information Belongs to Google
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:03:28 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Science Direct-ly into Google

,----[ Quote ]
| 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.     
`----

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 
|                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| fact that Telefonica knew it was breaking EU antitrust rules.
`----

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.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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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