This won't make any sense unless you first look at this rather good and amusing piece on Paul Staines' blog, about the predictive suggestions Google gives you when you type "Gordon Brown is". Then go to google.co.uk, and type in "Paul Staines", and see what predictive text Google suggests. FIRST PLACE GOOGLE SUGGESTION IS "PAUL STAINES BNP". As Paul says so wisely "GOOGLE KNOWS". Those g...
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CraigMurray on 23rd May 2009 (via craigmurray.org.uk)
The Sunday Times investigates Google’s tax arrangements in the UK. Well, actually, they have Richard Murphy read the accounts for them. In a nutshell when you buy an ad from Google you do so from Google Ireland rather than Google UK. Thus tax on any profits ends up in the Irish Treasury rather than the UK
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TimWorstall on 19th Apr 2009 (via timworstall.com)
I just popped into Google on my way to scan Paul Staines' Wikipedia entry (it's often educational* to watch who is changing, vandalising or fixing it, just in case you're wondering) but made a bit of a typo. This was...
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Bloggerheads on 29th Aug 2008 (via bloggerheads.com)
Published works from the US, UK, Australia and Canada only will be included in Google's digital book search project, Google and book industry representatives agreed on Friday (13 November).
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EurActiv on 16th Nov 2009 (via euractiv.com)
Today's New York Times has a fun piece about Google X, the secret lab where Google is working on its special projects. The ideas are, suitability, far out. They are, apparently, looking at connecting household appliances to the internet and creating a robot that could go to the office so you don't have to. It would be tempting to laugh if not for what Google has already pulled off. Indee...
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Spectator on 14th Nov 2011 (via spectator.co.uk)
Google dominates the search engine market, both in the UK and internationally. Although there are some countries where a local search service has the lead (e.g. Russia), overall Google is undoubtedly number one. The world however is full of companies which used to be massive, even dominant, but fell from grace. Remember the days when Novell
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 13th Mar 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
Looks like the clock has struck thirteen for Google. Confirmation. So far as I can gather, this means that the Google.cn site now in Hong Kong is completely blocked while Google.com can be accessed under the usual controls, though it...
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BloodAndTreasure on 30th Mar 2010 (via bloodandtreasure.typepad.com)
Image by tuexperto_com5, licensed under Creative Commons Google rules the virtual world but if it ruled the real one, would things be a bit different? Google.org which is the philanthropic arm of Google blogged that it wants to see America weaned off fossil fuels by 2030 for its electricity. Also, Google's own energy efficiency initiatives will be equivalent to shutting down 10-20 coal-fired ...
The Google search page has been redesigned in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II today, marking our head of state's visit to Google's UK offices:
1) Write about Google at a well known media outlet. 2) Write something about Google at a well known media site that Google would like to finesse. 3) Profit!
Oh dear, looks like the fuck up fairy has visited Google!
