Executives at the internet search engine Google may have more than their share of headaches at the moment, but they can at least be assured of a strong revenue stream from the Government while Gordon Brown remains in office.
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Telegraph on 25th Feb 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Matt Brittin, Google's UK boss, has denied that the internet giant acts as a "parasite", and likened the search engine to a "virtual newsagent".
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Telegraph on 3rd Dec 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
If you use Google to search the Internet, then you can redirect some of the advertising revenue from Google's ads into the party's coffers (sorry, not your own!) if you use the Google search box in the party's free Internet browser toolbar.* Once you've got the toolbar, just stick your search queries into its search box
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 31st Jul 2008 (via libdemvoice.org)
A massive global computer grid, designed to analyse the unprecedented amounts of data generated by the Large Hadron Collider [LHC], the worlds biggest scientific experiment, is being utilised by two high tech start-up companies from Cambridge, who are working together to build the next generation of internet search engine.
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PublicTechnology on 3rd Nov 2008 (via publictechnology.net)
These are all internet problems and [internet users] think someone should do something about it. Although many internet users think the government should keep out of the internet, I suggest to you that most ordinary people who just use the internet like they use the banking system or the trains think that the government should make sure it all works properly for them and that bad things get stoppe...
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Samizdata on 20th Nov 2008 (via samizdata.net)
Here’s a sophisticated pro-China argument on the fallout from the Google affair, specifically on the internet freedom versus internet sovereignty issue. There’s a good point within it: The infrastructure for the Internet was built in a way which did not...
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BloodAndTreasure on 10th Jul 2010 (via bloodandtreasure.typepad.com)
Search Engine Land has detailed graphs and an interesting summary of the impact of Michael Jackson's death on Google, Yahoo News, Bing, Wikipedia and AOL. A statement from AOL summed it up: Today was a seminal moment in Internet history. We’ve never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth.
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LiberalBurblings on 27th Jun 2009 (via liberalburblings.com)
The city state of Milan is prosecuting Google for defamation and breach of privacy after a video showing a down-syndrome boy being attacked by bullies was posted on the search engine's video site. Yesterday (16 December), four Google executives were in the stands protesting their innocence under EU laws on Internet freedom.
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EurActiv on 17th Dec 2009 (via euractiv.com)
Who would dare challenge Google, the superman of the Internet age? India, that's who. Fresh off the high of its recent lunar achievements, India is taking on the powerful Internet search company on a playing field a little closer to home: Google Earth. The Indian Based Research Organization (ISRO) plans to launch its Web-based mapping system, Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), by spring. The ...
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FPPassport on 21st Nov 2008 (via blog.foreignpolicy.com)
The world's biggest search engine, Google, has been inundated with requests for UKIP. The global internet giant reports that more people are interested in finding out about UKIP than any other political party taking part in the Euro elections. Sky News reports the results here.
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UKIP on 3rd Jun 2009 (via ukip.org)