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Residents challenge Google camera
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| Police were called to Broughton, near Milton Keynes, after residents staged
| the protest accusing Google of invading their privacy and "facilitating
| crime".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7980737.stm
Gang of villagers chase away Google car
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/04/03/google.anger/index.html?eref=rss_tech
Recent:
Google seeks patent on networking site
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| NEW DELHI: World's most visited Internet search site Google has filed a
| patent application in the country for its recently developed social network
| site based on user preferences and format performance data.
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http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/29/stories/2008092950140100.htm
Google's ad plans for Silverlight prompt questions for Microsoft
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| Google Inc. said Tuesday that its DoubleClick subsidiary will begin powering
| video advertising within Microsoft's Silverlight 2 rich-media player,
| prompting some observers to question the implications for Microsoft's own
| online advertising strategy.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111681&intsrc=news_ts_head
Google learns to crawl Flash
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| In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site
| in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search
| engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was
| also presented in another way that search engines could find.
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-learns-to-crawl-flash.html
Google Code blacklists Mozilla Public License
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| The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is the latest casualty of Google's decision
| to remove open-source licenses from its popular code hosting service.
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| The search giant has said Google Code is no longer accepting projects
| licensed under MPL, although existing MPL-licensed code is allowed to stay.
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| The move comes two years after Google Code launched, when MPL was one of just
| seven licenses Google allowed developers to use. Others included Apache, BSD
| and the Free Software Foundation's GPL and LGPL.
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| Google's MPL ban follows the block on FSF's Affero GPL. That decision's seen
| a number of projects abandon Google Code for rival hosts.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/25/googlecode_bans_mpl/
Google Is Evil in a Flash
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| What that means in practice is that one of the major downsides of using
| Flash – its invisibility to search engines like Google - has partly
| disappeared. That, in turn, is likely to encourage more Web designers to
| incorporate it into their sites – making the experience more like television
| than the Internet. Flash not only takes the control away from the visitor, it
| renders its content opaque in terms of links.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=986
Google is God
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| For something I’m working on, I compiled a bunch of stats on Google (sorry, I
| didn’t intend to blog it and so I didn’t capture all the links, but I found
| the collection so compelling I thought I’d share it):
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| • Google is the “fastest growing company in the history of the world.” –
| Times of London, 1/29/06
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http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/12/29/google-is-god/
Related:
Google to recruit a bevy of Europeans lobbyists
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| Google, the search engine heavyweight, is no longer prepared to
| stay out of the business of fashioning the political environment
| for decisions made in Europe. For lobbying work on its behalf the
| company is at present searching in numerous large European cities
| for politics-savvy lawyers; one such "European Policy Counsel"
| position will be available in Hamburg/Berlin.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/87158/from/rss09
Don't mess with Google's astroturf squad
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| Long before it employed bloggers to do the job for it, Microsoft hired
| sympathetic members of the public to make its case in online forums,
| posing as disinterested citizens. Things got much more professional as
| the antitrust trial unfurled. After hiring DCI in the late 1990s,
| Microsoft created two new trade groups, the Association for Competitive
| Technology (ACT), and the Americans for Technology Leadership (ALT),
| and marshaled campaigns such as "Freedom to Innovate" - encouraging
| Windows users the chance to make spontaneous gestures of support for
| Chairman Bill.
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| These weren't always too successful. A campaign in 2001 to petition 17
| state's Attorney Generals - who had pooled resources to bring their
| own antitrust action against Microsoft - resulted in supportive letters
| being written by dead people.
|
| And the astroturf taint continues today.
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| Most recently, a spoof video portraying Al Gore as a Penguin was reported
| to have originated from a computer registered to the DCI Group, although
| the lobby group said it did not fund or approve the video.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/14/google_lobby/
Google Hires Former DOJ Lawyer to Lobby
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| Under a federal law enacted in 1995, lobbyists are required to
| disclose activities that could influence members of the
| executive and legislative branches. They must register
| with Congress within 45 days of being hired or engaging in lobbying.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070601/google_lobbying.html?.v=2
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