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by yanw 14y ago
If anyone doubts that this is anything other than a cynical PR attack do consider the source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/technology/microsoft-battl... http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-03/did-mark-pen... And are we to
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Incoming Microsoft Launching Another Pathetic Smear Campaign Against Google(readwrite.com)
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by yanw 14y ago
Google Online Security Blog - Content hosting for the modern web: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/08/content-hos...
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by yanw 14y ago
Only in Europe would a cartel of newspapers be aided by the government in extorting a foreign company without anyone crying foul. If I were Google I would include a clause demanding positive coverage - seeing as they are paying for the damn
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by yanw 14y ago
So France wants to tax Google for indexing newspapers, and as recently as this month there were talks about a tax to "compensate" telecos for delivering YouTube clips. Now they come up with a "personal data" tax scheme targeted at Google: i
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Microsoft is sleazy.(readwrite.com)
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by yanw 14y ago
Windows was the only viable OS at the time, and when Microsoft forced OEMs to include IE and blocked them from making deals with Netscape it triggered that whole thing. Here Google is just a website on the internet, granted it's a significa
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by yanw 14y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think it's "bundling" when you add features to your product. The contention in the Microsoft case was that they forced OEMs to "bundle" IE and block Netscape. There is also the small matter of Google being free
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by yanw 14y ago
It's not an "easter egg": http://searchengineland.com/google-finance-brings-up-apple-s...
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by yanw 14y ago
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2012/12/working-better-together-...
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by yanw 14y ago
Blogspam FUD mongering.
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by yanw 14y ago
FUD profiteer seeds FUD via blogspam.
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by yanw 14y ago
No it just searches for Apps by default: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search-extensions/adblock
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Millions of Core-Hours Awarded to Science(googleresearch.blogspot.com)
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by yanw 14y ago
Yes, but they are also not as sensitive as location data and are very useful features.
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by yanw 14y ago
Location data is anonymous regardless if you login afterward or not: http://support.google.com/gmm/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&top...
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by yanw 14y ago
It's annoying when people with some degree of influence casually spew misinformed nonsense: Google wanting iOS users to be able to sign in — if not be downright encouraged to sign in — to their Google account, that’s easy to understand. Th
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by yanw 14y ago
I do not. Feel free to offer disclosures of your own though.
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by yanw 14y ago
Not sure I’m buying much of the righteous indignation going about regarding corporate taxes these days especially when politicians partake in it. If they put themselves into a situation where they have to depend on the moral choices of mul
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by yanw 14y ago
Judging from this and previous threads people here are either distrusting of free services or aren't willing to pay for the goods (not everyone obviously) which is quite the paradox. I'll chalk this one down to the startup nature of this co
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by yanw 14y ago
About time the government gets to dictate how search results appear? or about time they spent tax dollars helping companies with mediocre products to rank better on Google? I don't think you know what you're talking about.
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by yanw 14y ago
It's the result of PR attacks and sadly they seem to be working. Some of those writing are just parroting PR pitches and some just seem to depend on their limited experience with he service. Also considering that the number of active users
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by yanw 14y ago
I think that Streetview didn't enforce too many strict guidelines as it was thought of as a low-risk, non-user-facing product.
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by yanw 15y ago
He got thoroughly debunked by Danny Sullivan: http://marketingland.com/debunking-senator-al-franken-on-goo... Grandstanding and pandering is what politicians do best. Franken is no exception.
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by yanw 15y ago
At first search signals were mainly provided by the content itself and now signals from the user are being incorporated. There is already an established term for this and it’s not “filter bubble” or “tailoring” the term is “relevance” and i
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by yanw 15y ago
So go to other sites, I assume your browser has an address bar. Also: SEO is killing America : http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/the-information-die... If Google is killing SEO then they are making the world a better place.
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by yanw 15y ago
Not this nonsense again. Larry Page: "we want to get you out of Google and to the right place as fast as possible" That was pre-IPO Google! if you haven't noticed the web changed quite a bit since then and companies do evolve, especially
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by yanw 15y ago
Doesn't seem that genuine posted on a corporate blog.
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by yanw 15y ago
Not sure about the logistics but when the IE team announced that P3P circumvention "story" through a PR agency, it got me thinking that it's PR initiated. They are in the habit of hiring these firms: http://falkvinge.net/2012/03/02/how-mic
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by yanw 15y ago
Between attack ads and blog posts it seems like Google is all that Microsoft have to discuss lately. Not sure if Google is flattered by this obsession. Wonder why the author chose not to post on his personal blog, a Microsoft employee bashi

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