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Google Enigma: Code Cracked by Carr
‘Some say Google is God,’ Sergey Brin once said. ‘Others say Google is Satan.’ The confusion about Google’s identity may not be quite that Manichean, but it does run deep.” – Nicholas G. Carr, in strategy + business Nick Carr asks the question every forward-thinking executive has top of mind: Should innovation-minded managers view Google [...]
Facebook Facing CEO Woes
Mark Zuckerberg’s foray into being the top executive at a company with a $15 billion valuation has been dismaying to Facebook users and advertisers.Remaking the world of online advertising would be an ambitious stretch for the most experienced executives on the Internet. Facebook’s approach, spurred by Zuckerberg’s pronouncement that “once every hundred years, media changes,” [...]
Bonnie Brown On Massaging Google Geeks
Bonnie Brown was working as massage therapist at Google from 1999 to 2004. Before that, she ran a private school for 10 years. Now, Bonnie is traveling and also wrote a book called Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google. I met up with her on Google Talk (the transcript below has spellchecking and punctuation [...]
Google Needs Content Copies To Catch Copies
The fingerprinting technology Google will deploy to stop copyrighted works from hitting YouTube works best when Google has a copy of the work in question first.As part of the Google Analyst Day, CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin took part in a question and answer session. Barron’s said that Brin, seated between Schmidt and [...]
Google Guys Get Another Jet
There’s probably no truth to the following theories: Google’s starting its own airline; Google has a clandestine arrangement with NASA to set up data centers on the moon; the founders plan to hire their own Tattoo to shout "The plane! The plane!" for their own bored billionaire amusement.But the company executives do have four planes [...]
Google Analytics ‘Coffee Table Book’ Debuts
I’m not sure what constitutes a "coffee table" book in Mountain View, or wherever there might be another high concentration of Internet professionals, but an e-book on Google Analytics wouldn’t make the definition in my house. I prefer my etymological dictionary because I am an entirely different kind of geek.The word "abnormal," for instance, is [...]
UC Berkeley Tightens Ties With YouTube
In September of 2006, UC Berkeley became the first university to have its own page on the Google Video site. Now, a little over a year has passed, and the college is becoming the first to release videos of entire course lectures through YouTube. For our average reader, this isn’t likely to be as exciting [...]
Google Guys Get NASA Airstrip Deal
The massive 767-200 Google jet will be able to land at Mountain View’s highly coveted Moffett Field, thanks to a deal with NASA.In exchange for carrying scientific instrumentation for NASA experiments on board Google’s airplane, the search engine’s founders will be permitted to use a federal airstrip that is otherwise restricted to civilians. The San [...]
Google May Support A Small Electric Car
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have tossed quite a bit of money at Tesla Motors, but they did so as private individuals. Now there’s word that Google itself could get behind another automotive effort. Don’t get too excited; the focus of these rumors, a vehicle dubbed the Think, is nowhere near as sexy [...]
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