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What is Google’s true master plan?

published on February 2nd, 2007 . by joe

This is an interesting little movie theorizing on what Google’s true master plan is.

Link, Mirror

Online Store Threatens to Sue Blogger Over Google Ranking

published on December 13th, 2006 . by joe

Blogger Dean Hunt has apparently started to receive threats from an online store regarding Hunt’s blog’s google ranking.  The online store owner claims that he deserves to rank higher than Hunt’s blog in searches and is threatening legal action if he doesn’t change his ranking in google.  I have a lot of respect for Hunt.  He has refused to name the store or it’s owner.  I’d shame the guy off the net.

Link #1, Link #2 [ Via Slashdot ]

Microsoft Live OneCare says Gmail is a virus

published on November 13th, 2006 . by joe

Forshame Bill! First you try to lock McAfee out of the antivirus market and now you flag your competitors’ products as virii. Not good.  (Edit: Reported by Microsoft as false positive)

It seems that Microsoft has started flagging Gmail as a virus in their virus scanning software Windows Live OneCare. Many people are reporting that every time they open Gmail, a warning is displayed telling the user they are infected with “BAT/BWG.A”.

Google wants free (ad-supported) cellphones for everyone

published on November 13th, 2006 . by joe

“Your mobile phone should be free. It just makes sense that subsidies should increase as advertising rises on mobile phones,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt. With people using their phones more and more to perform many tasks on the go, Google see a prime opportunity to take advantage of.

Google has already begun working its magic in Japan by partnering with mobile phone networks to advance its mobile strategy. Google is also working on ways to efficiently deliver text, image and video ads to mobile phones.

Google accidentally sends out e-mail worm

published on November 9th, 2006 . by joe

Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra e-mail worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video e-mail group.
Three messages were posted Tuesday evening to an e-mail list that sends out alerts about additions to the Google Video blog. “Some of these posts may have contained a virus called W32/Kapser.A@mm–a mass-mailing worm,” Google said in a note on its Web site apologizing for the incident.

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