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Google-Microsoft rivalry comes down to clouds or software
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/google-microsoft-rivalry-comes-down-to-clouds-or-software/6469
Some of the anti-Google tea party is Astroturf
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| But some of it is as grassrooty as Richard
| Armeyâs FreedomWorks, or the many âpublic
| campaignsâ engaged in by Richard Berman on
| behalf of corporate clients. Some of the
| Google hate is Astroturf.
|
| Iâve mentioned one of the Astroturfers
| here many times. Scott Cleland has made a
| career of shilling for Bell company
| causes. Taking down Google means his Bell
| friends face less competition. Itâs
| embarrassing for a monopoly to be worth
| less than a start-up.
|
| [...]
|
| Take John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog.
| Less than a year after rebranding himself
| from the Foundation for Taxpayer and
| Consumer Rights, the former newspaper
| editor launched his anti-Google jihad.
|
| His biggest headline so far is a call for
| Google to be broken up, a call that gained
| traction after it was revealed Google was
| caching data from WiFi hotspots, and
| agreed to cut its data retention policy on
| IP searches to nine months.
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/some-of-the-anti-google-tea-party-is-astroturf/6496
Recent:
Dr. Evil's Payday
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| Who pulled off this publicity stunt? Credit Richard
| Berman, one of Washington's most notorious PR operatives,
| whose exploits Mother Jones and others have been
| chronicling for years. Nicknamed Dr. Evilâa moniker he
| embracesâhe's the force behind several industry-backed
| nonprofits that share staff and office space with his very
| for-profit communications and advertising firm, Berman and
| Company. The firm promises clients it will not "just
| change the debate" but "start" one, and a range of
| companies, from Anheuser-Busch to Philip Morris to the
| casino chain Harrah's, have signed up for Berman's
| "aggressive" and "hard-hitting" advocacy. Some clients pay
| Berman and Co. directly, while others donate to his
| nonprofitsâbut much of the cash winds up in the same
| place, via hefty management fees the front groups pay to
| Berman's company.
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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/hidden-interests-dr-evils-payday
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